It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him): I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Do not ride on silk (khazz) or on leopard skins."
(b) (The prohibition of) silk will be taken as tanzihi (discouraged, not forbidden); its evidence will come in the Book of Prayer, in sha Allah.
(c) Abu Shaykh al-Huna'i narrated the like from Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning leopard skins.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 75
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Bury nails, hair and blood, for they are carcass."
Imam al-Bayhaqi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: This chain is weak, and the hadiths about burying nails and hair have weak chains.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 76
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:منكر
Hadith Takhrij«منكر۔ أخرجه ابن عدي في الكامل 4/201»
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Waqid (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Whatever (part) is cut from an animal while it is alive is carcass."
(b) This hadith is used as evidence regarding hair and nails.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 77
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:صحيح لغيره
Hadith Takhrij«صحيح لغيره۔ أخرجه المؤلف في معرفة السنن 5604»
It is narrated from Abu Waqid al-Laythi (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, the people used to cut off the humps of camels and cut the fat tails of sheep. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whatever part of a living animal is cut off while it is alive is carcass (eating it is forbidden)."
(b) Some of our companions have used this as evidence.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 78
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:صحيح لغيره
Hadith Takhrij«صحيح لغيره۔ أخرجه لهذا الفظ ابن الجعد في مسنده»
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Maymunah (may Allah be pleased with her), informed him that one of the Mothers of the Believers had a domestic animal which died. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why did you not take its skin and then derive benefit from it!"
(b) It was said: He (peace and blessings be upon him) singled out the skin as what may be benefited from.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 79
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a dead sheep that had been given in charity to a freed slave of Sayyidah Maymunah (may Allah be pleased with her). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Why did you not benefit from its skin?" They said: It is a carcass. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Only eating (its flesh) is forbidden."
(b) The jurists say that he declared only eating forbidden. Abu Bakr al-Hudhali narrated some additional words in this narration from al-Zuhri, in which no trustworthy narrator corroborated him.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 80
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that eating the flesh of a carcass is forbidden, but its skin, teeth, bones, hair and wool are lawful.
(b) Ali bin Umar (al-Daraqutni) (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Abu Bakr al-Hudhali is a da'if (weak) narrator.
(c) Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him) said that only Abu Bakr al-Hudhali narrates this hadith from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): that he disliked the flesh of a carcass, but as for its teeth, hair and leather strips, there is no harm in them.
(d) Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Abu Bakr al-Hudhali is not a proof.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 81
It is narrated from Imam al-Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) "declared the flesh of a carcass forbidden, but saw no harm in (using) its skin, hair and wool."
Shaykh Ali bin Umar (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the narrator Abd al-Jabbar is da'if (weak).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 82
Abu Salamah bin Abd al-Rahman narrated: I heard the Mother of the Believers, Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "There is no harm in using the skin of a carcass after it has been tanned, and likewise its wool, hair and horns, when they have been washed."
Ali said that Yusuf bin al-Safar is matruk (abandoned), and no one other than him narrates this hadith.
(b) Imam Muhammad bin Isma'il al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu al-Fayd Yusuf bin al-Safar, the scribe of al-Awza'i, is munkar al-hadith (his narrations are denounced).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 83
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:باطل
Hadith Takhrij«باطل۔ أخرجه المؤلف في المعرفة 35»
Abdullah bin Qays al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him) heard Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) say that the flesh of a carcass and its blood are forbidden.
(b) For those who declared pure the hair that is on the skin of a carcass, holding that it becomes pure when the skin is tanned, this hadith is their evidence.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 84
Abu al-Khayr (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I saw a fur garment on Ibn Wa'lah al-Saba'i (may Allah have mercy on him), so I touched that garment. He asked: Why are you touching it? I asked Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both): We live in the Maghrib among the Berbers and the Magians, and rams are brought to us which they have slaughtered, and we do not eat their slaughtered animals. And waterskins are brought to us in which there is fat? So Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Its tanning is its purification."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 85
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said concerning furs (al-fira'): Its purification is by tanning.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 86
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:ضعيف
Hadith Takhrij«ضعيف۔ فيه محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن ابي ليليٰ»
It is narrated from Thabit al-Bunani (may Allah have mercy on him): I was sitting with Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla (may Allah have mercy on him) when a man with two braids came and said: O Abu Isa, tell me what you heard from your father about furs (al-fira'). He said: My father told me that he was sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when a man came and said: O Messenger of Allah, may I pray on furs? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then what is tanning for?" Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) said: When he left, I asked: Who is this? He said: Suwayd bin Ghafalah (may Allah be pleased with him).
(b) Some people narrated it through the chain of Ubaydullah bin Musa from Thabit from Anas, but this narration is not correct.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 87
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:ضعيف
Hadith Takhrij«ضعيف۔ فيه محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن ابي ليلـٰي»
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him): I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). A man said: O Messenger of Allah, what is your view about praying on the leather called fira'? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then what is tanning for?" (That is, one may pray on it after it has been tanned.)
(b) The first chain is more likely to be the preserved one. Ibn Abi Layla is kathir al-wahm (makes many errors).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 88
The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah Siddiqah (may Allah be pleased with her), was asked about furs (al-fira'), and she said: Perhaps tanning it will purify it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 89
Dawud al-Sarraj (may Allah have mercy on him) asked al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) about the skins of leopards and sables, if they are tanned with salt. He said: "Tanning them is their purification."
(b) The Shaykh said: It is transmitted from al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) concerning the wool of a carcass that it should be washed.
(c) Ata (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked it.
(d) It is transmitted from Ibn Sirin, al-Hakam and Hammad (may Allah have mercy on them) that they disliked using the hair of swine.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الطهارة / 90
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:ضعيف
Hadith Takhrij«ضعيف۔ فيه داؤد السراج وهو التقفي المصري»