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Sahih Muslim 1939صحيح مسلم 1939
وَحَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الأَزْدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ لاَ أَدْرِي إِنَّمَا نَهَى عَنْهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ حَمُولَةَ النَّاسِ فَكَرِهَ أَنْ تَذْهَبَ حَمُولَتُهُمْ أَوْ حَرَّمَهُ فِي يَوْمِ خَيْبَرَ لُحُومَ الْحُمُرِ الأَهْلِيَّةِ .
Ibn 'Abbas reported: I do not know whether Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited (the eating of the domestic ass) due to the fact that they were the beasts of burden for the people, so he (the Holy Prophet) did not like their beasts of burden to be destroyed (as a matter of expediency), or he prohibited the use of the flesh of domestic asses (not as an expediency but as a law of the Shari'ah) on the Day of Khaibar.
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
أحمد بن يوسف بن خالد ← عمر بن حفص بن غياث ← حفص بن غياث بن طلق ← عاصم بن سليمان ← عامر بن شراحيل ← عبد الله بن عباس
Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Khalid → Umar ibn Hafs ibn Ghiyath → Hafs ibn Ghiyath ibn Talq → Asim ibn Sulayman → Amir ibn Sharahil → Ibn `Abbas