The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked, "What is the right owed regarding camels?"He replied, "That you slaughter the fattest of them, lend out their stud for breeding, and milk them on the day they come to water."
سئل رسول الله ﷺ: ما حق الإبل؟ فقال: أن تنحر سمينها، وتطرق فحلها، وتحلبها يوم وردها.
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Tabarani related it in Awsat, known as Majma Bahrayn (1404), from Hasan bin Muthanna bin Muaz Anbari, who said, Abu Huzaifa narrated to us, Sufyan narrated to us, from Abu Zubayr, from Jabir bin Abdullah, and he related it.Tabarani said, "No one narrated it from Sufyan except Abu Huzaifa and Ashjaee." Its chain of transmission is hasan because of Abu Zubayr.Its origin is in Sahih Muslim (988), by the route of Abdul-Razzaq, which is also found in his Musannaf (6866), Ibn Jurayj informed us, Abu Zubayr informed me that he heard Jabir bin Abdullah relate a long hadith about those who withhold zakat on livestock, as mentioned earlier in the chapter on the severity regarding withholding zakat. He then said, Abu Zubayr said, "I heard Ubayd bin Umayr say this, then we asked Jabir bin Abdullah about it, and he said the same as Ubayd bin Umayr had said."Abu Zubayr also said, "I heard Ubayd bin Umayr say, A man said, 'O Messenger of Allah, what is the due of camels?' He said, "Milking them at the water, lending their bucket, lending their stud, lending them out for their milk, and carrying loads on them in the path of Allah.""This is also how it appears in the Musannaf of Abdul-Razzaq. Ubayd bin Umayr was born during the lifetime of the Prophet ﷺ, and for this reason they counted him among the senior Successors, so perhaps he heard it from Jabir bin Abdullah, as narrated by Tabarani, and its chain of transmission is sahih.Regarding Abu Huzaifa, who is Musa bin Masud Nahdi, there is some criticism, but it does no harm because Ashjaee corroborates him, and he is Ubaydullah bin Abdul-Rahman. Hafiz said, "Trustworthy and reliable, the most precise of people in recording Thawri's hadith, one of the narrators of the two Sahihs."Something similar was also narrated from Shareed, who said, "A man came to the Prophet ﷺ asking about a matter concerning camels, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Slaughter the fat one among them, load the swift one among them, milk on the day of watering, and enter Paradise in peace.""Tabarani related it in Kabir (7/381) by the route of Hatim bin Ismail, who said, Abdullah bin Hurmuz narrated to us, from Yazid bin Abu Fatyan, from Amr bin Shareed, from his father, and he related it. Bukhari has it from this same route in Tarikh al-Kabir (8/352).Abdullah bin Hurmuz Yamani Fadaki was mentioned by Bukhari in Tarikh al-Kabir (5/222), and by Ibn Abu Hatim in Jarh wa Tadil (5/195), and neither of them mentioned any criticism or endorsement of him. Both mentioned that Hatim bin Ismail and Ibn Ajlan narrated from him, which places him at the rank of "acceptable." Ibn Hibban included him among his reliable narrators (7/59), following his own principle of endorsing anyone in whom no criticism is known.Also in this chain is Yazid bin Abu Fatyan, whom Bukhari mentioned in Tarikh al-Kabir (8/352) without saying anything about him, while the rest of its narrators are reliable.As for Haythami, he said in Majma (3/107), "Its chain of transmission is hasan," relying on Ibn Hibban's endorsement.Also on this subject is a hadith from Salama bin Akwa, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, "The best of camels is thirty, from which one is given for its zakat, one is sent out in the path of Allah, and one is lent out for its milk, and this is better than forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, or a hundred, and woe to the owner of a hundred, from the hundred."Tabarani related it in Kabir (7/30) by the route of Amr bin Khalid Harrani, who said, Ibn Lahia narrated to us, from Muaz bin Muhammad Ansari, that Amr bin Yahya bin Saeed bin Zurara informed him, from the son of Salama bin Akwa, from his father, and he related it.In it is Ibn Lahia, about whom there is well-known criticism, and Haythami also faulted it for this reason in Majma (3/74).Also on this subject is a hadith from Qays bin Asim Minqari, who said, "I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and when he saw me, I heard him say, 'This is the chief of the people of the desert.'" He said, "When we had settled, I came to him and began speaking with him." He said, "I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, what wealth can I hold without being held accountable for it, given the guests who visit me and the dependents who have multiplied?'" He said, "The best wealth is forty, and more than that is sixty," and he related the hadith at length, mentioning other matters within it.Tabarani related it in Kabir (18/339-340), and Hakim (3/612), both from the hadith of Muhammad bin Ziyad Wasiti, who said, Ziyad Jassas narrated to us, from Hasan, who said, Qays bin Asim narrated to me, and he related it.In it is Ziyad Jassas, who is the son of Abu Ziyad Wasiti. Ibn Main and Ibn Madini said of him, "He is nothing." Nasai and Daraqutni said, "Discarded." Aqeeli gave an account of him in Duafa (528), and quoted from Yahya bin Main that he said, "Wasiti is nothing," and mentioned two hadiths of his, saying, "Neither of them is preserved." Haythami also faulted it for this reason in Majma (3/108).Bukhari related it in Adab al-Mufrad (953) by another route, from Qasim bin Mutayyib, from Hasan, with the same wording.Qasim bin Mutayyib Ajli was mentioned by Ibn Hibban in Majruhin (876), who said, "He was among those who erred in what they narrated despite the small number of their narrations, so he deserved to be discarded because of how frequently this occurred with him." Haythami also faulted it for this reason in Majma (9/404).