They set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while they were in a state of ihram, but Abu Qatada was not. He continued the hadith, which included the following.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, "Do you have any of it left with you?"They replied, "We have its leg."He said, So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took it and ate from it.
أنهم خرجوا مع رسول الله ﷺ وهم محرمون، وأبو قتادة محل وساق الحديث وفيه: فقال: هل معكم منه شيء. قالوا: معنا رجله. قال: فأخذها رسول الله ﷺ فأكلها.
This was narrated by Bukhari in the Book of Jihad (2854), and Muslim in the Book of Hajj (1196: 63), both through the route of Fudayl bin Sulayman Numayri, who said, we were told by Abu Hazim, from Abdullah bin Abu Qatada, from his father, and he related it. The hadith of Abu Qatada has been narrated through many chains and with different wordings, and I have mentioned many of them in Minna Kubra (4/106).As for what Abdul-Razzaq narrated (8337), and through his route Ibn Majah (3093), from Mamar, from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, from Abdullah bin Abu Qatada, from his father, who said, "I set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at the time of Hudaybiya, and his companions entered the state of ihram while I did not enter ihram. I saw a wild donkey, so I charged at it and hunted it. I mentioned its matter to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I mentioned that I had not entered ihram, and that I had only hunted it for him. So he ordered his companions to eat it, but he himself did not eat from it when I informed him that I had hunted it for him." This contains something objectionable, for no one else stated in the hadith of Abu Qatada, "I hunted it for you," nor his statement, "he did not eat from it when I informed him that I had hunted it for him."Ibn Khuzayma (2642) clarified this, and Daraqutni (2749) relates it from him. Ibn Khuzayma said, "This addition, 'I only hunted it for you,' and his statement, 'he did not eat from it when I informed him that I had hunted it for him,' I do not know of anyone who mentioned it in the report of Abu Qatada other than Mamar in this chain." Daraqutni also transmitted this from him and said, "This agrees with what has been narrated from Uthman."I say, the hadith of Uthman is what Daraqutni narrated in his Sunan (2750) through the route of Abdul-Razzaq, and it is in his Musannaf (8345), from Mamar, from Zuhri, from Urwa bin Zubayr, from Yahya bin Abdul-Rahman bin Hatib, from his father, that he performed umrah with Uthman in a caravan. When they were at Rawha, meat of a bird was brought to them. Uthman said, "Eat," but he disliked eating from it himself. Amr bin As said, "Shall we eat from what you yourself will not eat?" He said, "I am not like you in this matter. It was hunted for me, and it was killed in my name," or he said, "for my sake." Its chain of transmission is sahih.