Kab bin Malik reported that they had sheep grazing at Sal. A young slave girl of theirs noticed that one of the sheep was dying, so she broke a stone and slaughtered it with the sharp edge.He told his family, "Do not eat it until I ask the Prophet ﷺ, or send someone to ask him."He then asked the Prophet ﷺ about it, or sent someone to ask, and the Prophet ﷺ instructed him to eat it.
- أنه كانت لهم غنم ترعى بسلع، فأبصرت جارية لنا بشاة من غنمنا موتا، فكسرت حجرا فذبحتها به، فقال لهم: لا تأكلوا حتى أسأل النبي ﷺ، أو أرسل إلى النبي ﷺ من يسأله. وأنه سأل النبي ﷺ عن ذلك، أو أرسل، فأمره بأكلها.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Agency (2304) from Ishaq bin Ibrahim, who heard Mutamir, who told us Ubaydullah reported from Nafi, that he heard Ibn Kaab bin Malik relating from his father, and he mentioned it. Ubaydullah said, "What pleases me is that she was a slave girl, and that she slaughtered the animal properly."Abdah bin Sulayman Kullabi followed Mutamir in transmitting from Ubaydullah with this same chain. Bukhari brought this out in the Book of Slaughtered Animals (5504) from Sadaqah, who told us Abdah reported from Ubaydullah, from Nafi, from a son of Kaab bin Malik, from his father, that a woman slaughtered a sheep with a stone, so the Prophet ﷺ was asked about that, and he ordered that it be eaten.Layth said, "Nafi told us that he heard a man from the Ansar informing Abdullah, from the Prophet ﷺ, that a slave girl belonging to Kaab..." and he related the same account.The sons of Kaab bin Malik who transmitted from their father as narrators are three, Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman, and Ubaydullah, and all of them are trustworthy, as Ibn Main stated. In some of the narrations it appears that he was Abdul-Rahman.Bukhari brought out this hadith in his Sahih in several places. Among them, in the Book of Slaughtered Animals (5501), from Muhammad bin Abu Bakr, who told us Mutamir reported from Ubaydullah, from Nafi, who heard Ibn Kaab bin Malik informing Ibn Umar that his father had told him that a slave girl belonging to them used to graze sheep at Sila, and she saw one of her sheep dying, so she broke a stone and slaughtered it with it. He then said to his household, "Do not eat it until I go to the Prophet ﷺ and ask him, or until I send someone to ask him." So he went to the Prophet ﷺ or sent someone to him, and the Prophet ﷺ ordered that it be eaten.Also in the Book of Slaughtered Animals (5502), from Musa, who told us Juwayriyah reported from Nafi, from a man of Banu Salama, who informed Abdullah that a slave girl belonging to Kaab bin Malik was grazing sheep of his at the small hill that is by the market, at Sila, and one of the sheep was struck by something, so she broke a stone and slaughtered it with it. They then mentioned this to the Prophet ﷺ, and he ordered them to eat it.Also among them is what he narrated in the Book of Slaughtered Animals (5505), from the hadith of Malik, which is also found in the Muwatta in the Book of Slaughtered Animals (4), from Nafi, from a man of the Ansar, from Muaz bin Saad, or Saad bin Muaz, who informed him that a slave girl belonging to Kaab bin Malik was grazing sheep at Sila, and one of the sheep was struck by something, so she caught up with it and slaughtered it with a stone. The Prophet ﷺ was then asked, and he said, "Eat it." In this narration there is a man who is not named.There is also a disagreement regarding Nafi's transmission, which Daraqutni pointed out in al-Tatabbu (314–315), concluding that the version from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, is not sahih. I say, however, it is sahih from someone other than him, and for that reason I have gathered all the narrations that Bukhari brought out, since what is sahih is not to be undermined by what is not sahih.