Azami 7235

Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Aqiqah (5471) from Abu Numan, who said, "Hammad bin Zayd narrated to us, from Ayub, from Muhammad, from Salman bin Amir," who said, "Aqiqah is due for the boy." He narrated it this way as a stopped report attributed to Salman bin Amir. Then he narrated it as a suspended report using the definite form of attribution (5472), saying, "Asbagh said, Ibn Wahb informed me, from Jareer bin Hazim, from Ayub Sakhtiyani, from Muhammad bin Sirin," who said, "Salman bin Amir Dabbi narrated to us," who said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Aqiqah is due for the boy, so shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him.'"Bukhari's statement "Asbagh said" indicates that he did not hear it directly from him, even though Asbagh was one of his teachers. Scholars therefore disagreed over whether this chain is connected or cut off. Ibn Salah and others held that it is connected, while Ibn Hazm held that it is disconnected. Those who say Bukhari included it in his Sahih rely on Ibn Salah's view, while those who say he only mentioned it as a suspended report rely on Ibn Hazm's view. I am among those who hold Ibn Salah's view that it is connected, and I have mentioned this in many places. The hadith has other paths which I have mentioned in Minna Kubra (4/516).As for what has been narrated from Abu Hurairah, who said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Aqiqah is indeed due for the boy, so shed blood on his behalf and remove the harm from him,'" this is a mistake. The correct attribution is that it is from Salman bin Amir Dabbi, as already mentioned. Bazzar narrated it in Kashf Astar (1236) through the path of Israil, and Hakim (4/238) through the path of Jareer bin Hazim, both of them from Abdullah bin Mukhtar, from Muhammad bin Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, mentioning it. Their wording is the same, and Hakim added, "Jareer said, Hasan was asked about the harm, and he said, it is the hair." Hakim said, "The chain is sahih." Haythami attributed it in Majma (4/58) to Bazzar and said, "Its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih."I say, Hakim's grading of it as sahih was based on the apparent chain, but the students of Ibn Sirin, such as Ayub, Habib bin Shaheed, Yunus bin Ubayd, Qatada, and others, all narrated it from Muhammad bin Sirin, from Salman bin Amir Dabbi, as already mentioned. For this reason, Daraqutni said in Gharaib, as recorded in Atraf Gharaib wal-Afrad by Maqdisi (5405), "Abdullah bin Mukhtar narrated it alone, from him, from Abu Hurairah, but the preserved version is from Salman bin Amir Dabbi." End of quote.A note, an omission occurred in the chain in the printed edition of Mustadrak, and it is recorded correctly in Ithaf Mahra by Ibn Hajar (5/541).His statement, "Remove the harm from him," applies to both males and females, because the harm refers to the blood of the womb. The Prophet ﷺ did not distinguish between males and females regarding the shaving of the hair, just as he did distinguish between them regarding the number of animals to be sacrificed for each. Fatimah weighed the hair of Husayn, Husayn's brother, Zaynab, and Umm Kulthum, and gave in charity silver equal to that weight, as will come later. Those who held that this applies specifically to males and not females based their view on the general prohibition found in hadiths against a woman shaving her head.