باب: ذكر رواية عاصم بن ضمرة عن علي، رضي الله عنه بخلاف ما مضى في خمس وعشرين من الإبل وفيما زاد على مائة وعشرين من الإبل، وبيان ضعف تلك الرواية ورواية حماد بن سلمة عن قيس بن سعد
The narration of Asim bin Damrah from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) contrary to what has passed on twenty-five camels and on more than one hundred and twenty camels, and the weakness of that narration and of the narration of Hammad bin Salamah from Qays bin Sa'd
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Asim bin Damrah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "On twenty-five camels there are five, meaning goats."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7260
Sayyiduna Asim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated the like of this from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and added: "When they exceed one hundred and twenty, the dues revert to their beginning, and when the camels become many, then on every fifty a hiqqah." And this is dearer to Sufyan (may Allah have mercy on him) than the view of the people of the Hijaz.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7261
Asim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that when camels exceed one hundred and twenty, the dues are started afresh according to that reckoning. Sufyan also narrated the like of that from Mansur from Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him).
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub bin Sufyan said: It reached me that Yahya bin Ma'in said: Yahya bin Sa'id used to narrate a hadith in which he erred, from Sufyan al-Thawri, from Abu Ishaq, from Asim, from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), that he said: When camels exceed one hundred and twenty, the due is started afresh. (Ya'qub said:) Yahya bin Sa'id did not err in this; Ibn al-Mubarak corroborated him, and this is well known from the narration of Sufyan from Abu Ishaq from Asim from Ali. However, the scholars objected to this from Asim bin Damrah, because the narration of Asim bin Damrah from Ali contradicts the document of the family of Amr bin Hazm and the document of Abu Bakr and Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both).
The Shaykh (al-Bayhaqi) said: As for Abu Zakariyya Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him), he attributed the error to Yahya bin Sa'id.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7262
Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Yahya bin Sa'id used to narrate a hadith in which he erred, from Sufyan al-Thawri, from Abu Ishaq, from Asim bin Damrah (may Allah have mercy on him), from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), that he said: "When camels exceed one hundred and twenty, the due is started afresh."
Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Waki' (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated it from Sufyan, from Mansur, from Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him), who said: When camels exceed one hundred and twenty, the due is started afresh according to the first reckoning. Yahya said: This is the more correct of the two hadiths.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7263
Al-Mufaddal bin Ghassan al-Ghalabi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Yahya bin Ma'in (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned that Yahya bin Sa'id al-Qattan narrated from Sufyan a hadith which he alone narrated, from Abu Ishaq, from Asim bin Damrah, from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "When camels exceed one hundred and twenty, the due is started afresh according to the first reckoning," and he said: This is an error. He said: I mentioned to Yahya the hadith of Waki' from Sufyan, from Mansur, from Ibrahim, who said: When camels exceed one hundred and twenty, the due is started afresh according to the first reckoning; and he said: This is sahih.
The Shaykh (al-Bayhaqi) said: Yahya's statement in this narration may mean that he only faulted Yahya al-Qattan for narrating from Sufyan a hadith that Sufyan alone narrated and which, according to the scholars of hadith, is an error, while he used to guard against such things and narrated only what was sahih in his view. And Allah knows best. As for Abu Yusuf Ya'qub bin Sufyan al-Farisi and other imams, they attributed the error to Asim bin Damrah, and took as evidence of his mistake its contradiction of the well-known narrations about zakah from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and then from Abu Bakr and Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both). As for al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him), he said in his Old book (al-Qadim): An unknown narrator narrated this from Ali, and most of those who narrate from that unknown narrator claim that the one who narrated this from him erred against him and that this is not part of his hadith, meaning his statement about starting afresh. In another book he cited as evidence for this the narration of those who narrated from Abu Ishaq, from Asim, from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) contrary to that.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7264
Asim bin Damrah narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "When camels exceed one hundred and twenty, then on every fifty there is a hiqqah and on every forty a bint labun."
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: This is what we hold, and it agrees with the Sunnah. Some of the Iraqis do not adopt it, and so they contradict what is narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), and what is established from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) by their own standards, going over to the view of Ibrahim and to something that is wrongly attributed to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7265
Asim bin Damrah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: On five camels there is one goat, on ten two goats, on fifteen three goats, on twenty four goats, and on twenty-five five goats. When they exceed that, up to thirty-five there is a bint makhad; then when more, up to forty-five there is a bint labun. Likewise is the zakah of camels up to ninety. When they exceed that, up to one hundred and twenty there are two hiqqahs fit to receive the stud camel. Then when they exceed even that, on every fifty there is a hiqqah and on every forty a bint labun.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7266
Zuhayr (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: I think it is from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he said: "Bring a quarter of the tenth ('ushr)." Then he narrated the hadith up to: "And on camels," and then he mentioned their zakah just as al-Zuhri (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned it: On twenty-five camels there are five goats. When there is one more, there is a bint makhad. If there is no bint makhad, then a male ibn labun, up to thirty-five. Then he narrated the hadith: When there is one more, meaning over ninety, there are two hiqqahs fit to receive the stud camel, and this is up to one hundred and twenty. If the camels are more than that, then on every fifty a hiqqah.
It does not contain what is in the narration of Sufyan from Abu Ishaq about starting afresh. In it, and in many of the narrations from him, there is 'on twenty-five, five goats', and they have unanimously abandoned holding that view, because Asim bin Damrah and al-Harith al-A'war, narrating from Ali, contradict the well-known narrations about zakah from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and from Abu Bakr and Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) on that point. Likewise, the narration of whoever narrated starting afresh from him contradicts those well-known narrations, besides the discrepancy and error within it itself, and the leading imams of transmission criticised it; so it must be abandoned in favour of what is stronger than it. And success is from Allah.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7267
Hammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I said to Qays bin Sa'd: Get me the document of Muhammad bin Amr bin Hazm. He gave me a document which he said he had taken from Abu Bakr bin Muhammad bin Amr bin Hazm, (stating) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) wrote it for his grandfather. I read it, and in it was mention of what is to be paid from the obligatory dues of camels. He narrated the hadith until they reach one hundred and twenty: "When they are more than that, count a hiqqah for every fifty, and whatever is left over is returned to the first of the dues of camels. Whatever is fewer than twenty-five, its due is sheep: on every five camels one sheep, not a male, nor an old one, nor a defective one among the sheep."
It is munqati' (broken) between Abu Bakr bin Hazm and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Qays bin Sa'd took it from a document, not by hearing, and likewise Hammad bin Salamah took it from a document, not by hearing. Although Qays bin Sa'd and Hammad bin Salamah are among the thiqat (trustworthy), this narration of theirs contradicts the narration of the hadith masters from the document of Amr bin Hazm and others. Hammad bin Salamah's memory deteriorated at the end of his life, so the hadith masters do not use as evidence what he narrates in contradiction to others, and they avoid what he alone narrates, especially from Qays bin Sa'd and the like. This hadith combines both matters, besides the break in its chain. And success is from Allah.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7268
Ali bin al-Madini (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Yahya bin Sa'id al-Qattan (may Allah have mercy on him) said: (The narration of) Hammad bin Salamah from Ziyad al-A'lam and Qays bin Sa'd is not up to standard. Then Yahya said: If what Hammad bin Salamah narrated from Qays bin Sa'd is true, then Qays bin Sa'd is worth nothing; but the hadith of Hammad bin Salamah from the (well-known) shaykhs, from Thabit and this kind (is reliable), meaning that he is firm in them.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7269
Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I heard my father (may Allah have mercy on him) say that the book of Hammad bin Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him) from Qays bin Sa'd was lost, so he used to narrate hadith from his memory, and this is its story.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7270
Hammad bin Salamah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Hajjaj al-Ahwal borrowed that document (of Qays) from me and took it to Makkah, then said that it had been lost.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الزكاة / 7271