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الفتح الربانی
Fath al-Rabbani
أبواب السبق والرميChapters on Racing and Archery
بابُ فِي اسْتِحْبَابِ تَكْثِيرِ نَسْلِهَا وَفَضْلٍ ذلِكَ وَالنَّهْي عَنْ اخْتِصَائِهَا وَكَرَاهَةِ انْزَاءِ الْحُمُرِ عَلَيْهاChapter on the Recommendation to Increase Their Offspring, Its Virtue, the Prohibition of Castrating Them, and the Dislike of Breeding Donkeys with Them
Hadith 5195
اُردوEn
عَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ نَهَانَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنْ نُنْزِيَ حِمَارًا عَلَى فَرَسٍ
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) forbade us from mating a mare with a donkey.
Brief Explanation
Benefits: … A mule is produced from the mating of a mare and a donkey. In these ahadith, this mating has been regarded as disliked, although in the Noble Qur’an, along with horses and donkeys, the mule is also mentioned as a favor, from which the permissibility of the existence of the mule and its continuation as a species is understood. Therefore, the scholars have considered the prohibition or the ruling of dislike in these ahadith to be of a non-binding (tanzihi) nature, or it will be interpreted as applying to the situation where, due to this, the lineage and increase of horses is affected, because the horse is more beneficial and necessary than the mule, and there should not be a decrease in its lineage.
