Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3069
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُوسَى الْبَصْرِيُّ الْحَرَشِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَكَّائِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ أَتَى أُنَاسٌ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَأْكُلُ مَا نَقْتُلُ وَلاَ نَأْكُلُ مَا يَقْتُلُ اللَّهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ ( فَكُلُوا مِمَّا ذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ بِآيَاتِهِ مُؤْمِنِينَ ) إِلَى قَوْلِهِ : (وَإِنْ أَطَعْتُمُوهُمْ إِنَّكُمْ لَمُشْرِكُونَ ) . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ . وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ مِنْ غَيْرِ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَيْضًا وَرَوَاهُ بَعْضُهُمْ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مُرْسَلاً .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn ‘Abbas reported: ‘Some people came to the Prophet and asked, “Messenger of Allah, why may we eat what we kill, but not what Allah kills?” Then Allah revealed, “Eat from that over which Allah’s name has been mentioned, if you believe in His signs…” through “…and if you obey them, you will indeed be polytheists” (Qur’an 6:118–121).’ Abu ‘Isa graded this hadith hasan gharib. It is also reported from Ibn ‘Abbas through another route; some narrators report it from ‘Ata’ ibn al-Sa’ib, from Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, directly from the Prophet as a mursal report.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The question concerns animals hunted and killed by people versus animals that died without human slaughter; the verse directs believers to eat what is slaughtered in Allah’s name.