I was sitting with Abu Hurairah when a man from Banu Amir bin Sasaah passed by, and someone said, "This is the wealthiest of the Amiris in livestock."Abu Hurairah said, "Bring him back to me." So they brought him back, and Abu Hurairah said, "I have been told that you possess great wealth?"The Amiri replied, "Yes, by Allah, I own a hundred red camels, a hundred dark ones," and he went on listing the various colors of camels, varieties of slaves, and tethered horses.Abu Hurairah said, "Beware of the hooves of camels and the cloven hooves of sheep!" He kept repeating this to him until the color of the Amiri's face began to change.The Amiri asked, "What do you mean by that, Abu Hurairah?"Abu Hurairah said, I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "Whoever owns camels and does not pay their due in times of hardship and ease..."We said, "Messenger of Allah, what is meant by their times of ease and hardship?"He said, "In times of difficulty and prosperity. For on the Day of Resurrection, they will come in their fattest, largest, plumpest, and most vigorous form. Then their owner will be laid flat on a level plain, and they will trample him with their hooves. As soon as the last of them has passed over him, the first will be brought back upon him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgment is passed among people and he sees his path, either to Paradise or to Hell.And if he owned cattle and did not pay their due in times of hardship and ease, they will come on the Day of Resurrection in their fattest, largest, plumpest, and most vigorous form. Then he will be laid flat on a level plain, and every one of them with cloven hooves will trample him with its hooves, and every one with horns will gore him with its horns. As soon as the last of them has passed over him, the first will be brought back upon him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgment is passed among people and he sees his path.And if he owned sheep and did not pay their due in times of hardship and ease, they will come on the Day of Resurrection in their fattest, largest, plumpest, and most vigorous form. Then he will be laid flat on a level plain, and every one with cloven hooves will trample him with its hooves, and every one with horns will gore him with its horns, and none among them will have twisted horns or be hornless. As soon as the last of them has passed over him, the first will be brought back upon him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgment is passed among people and he sees his path."The Amiri then asked, "And what is the due of camels, Abu Hurairah?"He replied, "That you give of the noble ones, lend out the abundant milkers, give one its back to ride, give of its milk to drink, and lend the stud for breeding."
كنت عند أبي هريرة جالسا قال فمر رجل من بني عامر بن صعصعة فقيل له هذا أكثر عامري نادى مالا. فقال أبو هريرة: ردوه إلي، فردوه عليه فقال: نبئت أنك ذو مال كثير؟ فقال العامري: إي والله إن لي مائة حمرا ومائة أدما حتى عد من ألوان الإبل، وأفنان الرقيق، ورباط الخيل. فقال أبو هريرة: إياك وأخفاف الإبل وأظلاف الغنم!- يردد ذلك عليه- حتى جعل لون العامري يتغير أو يتلون فقال: ما ذاك يا أبا هريرة؟ فقال سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول: من كانت له إبل لا يعطي حقها في نجدتها ورسلها. قلنا: يا رسول الله وما رسلها ونجدتها؟ قال: في عسرها ويسرها، فإنها تأتي يوم القيامة كأغذ ما كانت وأكبره وأسمنه وأسره ثم يبطح لها بقاع قرقر فتطؤه فيه بأخفافها إذا جاوزته أخراها أعيدت عليه أولاها في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة حتى يقضى بين الناس فيرى سبيله، وإذا كانت له بقر لا يعطي حقها في نجدتها ورسلها فإنها تأتي يوم القيامة كأغذ ما كانت وأكبره وأسمنه وأسره ثم يبطح لها بقاع قرقر فتطوه فيه كل ذات ظلف بظلفها وتنطحه كل ذات قرن بقرنها إذا جاوزته أخراها أعيدت عليه أولاها في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة حتى يقضى بين الناس حتى يرى سبيله، وإذا كانت له غنم لا يعطي حقها في نجدتها ورسلها فإنها تأتي يوم القيامة كأغذ ما كانت وأكبره وأسمنه وأسره، ثم يبطح لها بقاع قرقر فتطؤه كل ذات ظلف بظلفها وتنطحه كل ذات قرن بقرنها يعني ليس فيها عقصاء ولا عضباء إذا جاوزته أخراها أعيدت أولاها في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة حتى يقضى بين الناس فيرى سبيله. فقال العامري: وما حق الإبل يا أبا هريرة؟ قال: أن تعطي الكريمة، وتمنح الغزيرة، وتفقر الظهر، وتسقي اللبن، وتطرق الفحل.
Imam Ahmad (10350) narrated it from Muhammad bin Jafar, who said, Saeed bin Abu Aruba narrated to us, from Qatada, from Abu Umar Ghudani, who said, (then he mentioned it). Ibn Khuzayma narrated it in his Sahih (2322) through another route from Yazid bin Harun, who said, Shuba informed us, from Qatada, with his chain of transmission, similarly. Through this same route, Abu Dawud (1660) also narrated it in abbreviated form, as did Imam Ahmad (10351), except that Imam Ahmad did not give its wording but simply referred back to what had preceded.Ibn Khuzayma said, "No one narrated this hadith except Yazid bin Harun, from Shuba." I say, it is not as he said, for Saeed bin Abu Aruba also narrated it from Qatada, as mentioned above. Nasai (2442) also narrated this same route, except that he did not mention the story at the beginning of the hadith.Its chain is hasan on account of Abu Umar, also said to be Amr Ghudani, for no one deemed him reliable except Ibn Hibban. For this reason Hafiz said of him, "acceptable," meaning if corroborated, and he has indeed been corroborated regarding the main body of the hadith as mentioned above, except that he alone reported this story at the beginning of the hadith, and I have not found any corroborator for it.