بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
On the authority of Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) passed by a group of people who had hunted a female gazelle and tied her to the pole of a tent.
She said: “O Messenger of Allāh, I have given birth to two young fawns; seek permission for me to nurse them, and then I will return.”
The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: “Release her until she comes to her two fawns, nurses them, and returns to you.”
They said: “And who will guarantee that for us, O Messenger of Allāh?” He said: “I [will].”
So they released her, and she went and nursed [them], then returned to them, and they bound her tightly. He said: “Will you sell her?” They said: “O Messenger of Allāh, she is yours.” So they let her go and set her free, and she left.
(Collected by al-Tabarānī in al-Awsat 5547 via:
Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmān ibn Abī Shaybah > Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad ibn Maymūn > ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hilāl al-Juʿfī > Sālih al-Marrī > Thābit al-Bunānī > Anas)
Al-Haythamī said: “In (the chain) is Sālih al-Marrī and he is weak”. (Majma’ #14101)
Sālih al-Marrī: Ibn Maʿīn said: “Weak”; and [also] said, “He is nothing.” Ibn al-Madīnī, al-Fallās, and al-Nasāʾī declared him weak, and [al-Nasāʾī] said on one occasion: “Abandoned.” Al-Bukhārī said: “His hadīths are rejected [munkar].” Al-Jawzajānī said: “He was a judge, feeble in hadīth.”
‘Abdul-Karīm ibn Hilāl: Al-Dhahabī said: “I don’t know who he is.” Al-‘Azdī said: “Weak”.
