A man who kills one of the pigeons of Makkah

It is narrated from Ata that a man shut his door on a pigeon and its chicks and went off to Mina and Arafat. When he returned, the pigeon and its chicks had died. The man came to Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and mentioned this to him; he made it binding on him to give three sheep, and another man judged along with him.

Ata bin al-Sa'ib said: We stopped at a house and I shut a pigeon in the house, and the pigeon died. We asked Ata, and he said: "A sheep is due for it."

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: A sheep is due from him.

Ata said: Whoever kills one of the pigeons of Makkah owes a sheep.

Ata said: A sheep is due from him.

Salamah bin Muhriz said: I shut my door in Makkah, and when I opened it again, two birds had died. I asked Tawus about it, and he said: "Slaughter two sheep."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: For each bird (pigeon) of the Haram, a sheep is due.

Ata said: For the dubsi bird (which is red and black in colour), the qumri (a pigeon with a beautiful voice) and the akhdar bird (which the Arabs regarded as a bad omen), a sheep is due for each.

Al-Hakam narrated from a shaykh of the people of Makkah that a pigeon was sitting on the House (the Ka'bah), and it fell onto the hand of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Umar waved it off with his hand, and it flew and settled on one of the houses of Makkah, where a snake came and ate it. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) made a sheep binding on himself.

The father of Salih said: I performed Hajj with Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), and we arrived in Makkah. I spread a bed for him in a house and he lay down. Meanwhile a pigeon came and settled in a window opening above the bed and began scratching with its feet. I feared that it would scatter dirt onto the bed and that Sayyiduna Uthman would wake up because of it, so I shooed the pigeon away. It settled in another window opening, and a snake came out and killed it. When Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) woke from his sleep, I told him about this. He said: "Pay a sheep on your own behalf." I said: "I only drove it away for your sake." He said: "Then pay a sheep on my behalf as well."

Ata said: The first person to give a sheep as compensation for the birds of the Haram was Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: If the pigeons of the Haram are killed in Makkah, a sheep is due for it.

Al-Hakam and Hammad said: We asked Ibrahim about a man in the state of ihram who took a chick in his hand and then wanted to put it back, but it died. He said: He is liable for it.