It is narrated from Sayyiduna Laqit bin Sabirah (may Allah be pleased with him) (the delegate of Banu al-Muntafiq) that he and a companion of his came to the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), looking for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but did not find him there. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) fed us a midday meal of dates and 'asidah (a pudding of flour and ghee). Only a little while had passed when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived, walking with a dignified, firm stride. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Have you both eaten?" We said: Yes. I said: O Messenger of Allah! Tell us about the prayer (the ablution for it). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Perform the ablution completely (and well), pass water between the fingers, and draw water well into the nose, unless you are fasting."
I said: O Messenger of Allah! I have a wife - and he mentioned her foul tongue - so he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Divorce her." I said: She has been my companion (for a long time) and has children? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then admonish her; if there is any good in her she will surely accept (the admonition). And do not beat your wife the way you beat your slave-girl." While we were like that, the shepherd lifted a newborn kid in his hands in the fold. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Has (a goat) given birth?" He said: Yes. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What is it?" He said: A lamb. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Slaughter a goat in its place." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) turned to me and said: "'La tahsibanna' (with a kasrah on the sin) - and he did not say 'la tahsabanna' (with a fathah on the sin) - that is: do not think at all that we slaughtered it only for your sake. In fact, we have a hundred goats and we do not like their number to go above that, so whenever a lamb is born to the shepherd, we order him and he slaughters a goat in its place."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Qurrah bin Khalid except Yahya bin Sa'id. Ali bin Hassan is alone in narrating it. So if Ali bin Hassan has preserved it correctly, then it is gharib (singular) as a hadith of Qurrah bin Khalid, because narrators other than Ali bin Hassan narrated it with the chain 'from Yahya bin Sa'id, from Ibn Jurayj, from Isma'il bin Kathir.'"
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب الميم / 7446
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:صحيح
Hadith Takhrij«قال أبو القاسم البغوي: صححه «تحفة الأحوذي شرح سنن الترمذي، ج 1، ص 40»» «قال النووي: حديث صحيح «تحفة الأحوذي شرح سنن الترمذي، ج 1، ص 40»» «قال ابن حجر: ما أعل به حديث لقيط بن صبرة من أنه لم يرو عن عاصم بن لقيط بن صبرة إلا إسماعيل بن كثير وقال ليس بشيء لأنه روى عنه غيره «تحفة الأحوذي شرح سنن الترمذي، ج 1، ص 40»» «أخرجه ابن الجارود فى «المنتقى» برقم: 88، وابن خزيمة فى «صحيحه» برقم: 150، 168، وابن حبان فى «صحيحه» برقم: 1054، 1087، 4510، والحاكم فى «المستدرك» برقم: 524، 525، 526، 527، 652، 2932، 2933، 7186، والنسائي فى «المجتبى» برقم: 87 / 1، 114 / 1، والنسائي فى «السنن الكبرى» برقم: 99، 116، 3035، 6665، وأبو داود فى «سننه» برقم: 142، 2366، 3973، (1/55) [دون رقم في الترقيم المختار]، والترمذي فى «جامعه» برقم: 38، 788، والدارمي فى «مسنده» برقم: 732، وابن ماجه فى «سننه» برقم: 407، 448، والبيهقي فى «السنن الكبرى» برقم: 228، 236، 237، 359، 8354، 14889، وأحمد فى «مسنده» برقم: 16642، 16643، 16644، 16645، 16646، 18126، والطيالسي فى «مسنده» برقم: 1438، وعبد الرزاق فى «مصنفه» برقم: 79، 80، وابن أبي شيبة فى «مصنفه» برقم: 84، 275، 9844، 25969، والطحاوي فى «شرح مشكل الآثار» برقم: 2520، 2521، 5363، 5362، 5427، 5425، 5426، والطبراني فى «الكبير» برقم: 480، 479، 482، 481، 483»