It is narrated from Hazrat Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) that I submitted to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Our area is a hunting region, (please tell me something regarding this)." The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "When you release your dog for hunting and take the name of Allah, then whatever game it catches for you and does not eat itself, eat it. But if it has eaten from it, then do not eat it, because it has caught it for itself. And if you find another dog along with your dog, and you fear that the other dog may have caught and killed the game, then do not eat it, because you do not know who hunted it."

A man says that I said to Hazrat Adi (may Allah be pleased with him) that I have heard a hadith attributed to you, but I want to hear it directly from you. He said, "Very well. When I received the news of the Prophet Muhammad’s (peace and blessings be upon him) proclamation of prophethood, I was greatly displeased. I left my area and reached the border of Rome and went to Caesar. But upon reaching there, I felt even more intense displeasure than I had felt upon hearing the news of prophethood. I thought to myself, I should go and see this man; if he is a liar, he cannot harm me, and if he is truthful, I will find out. So I returned and presented myself before the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). When I arrived, people began to say, 'Adi bin Hatim, Adi bin Hatim.' I reached the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (may Allah have mercy on him) said to me, 'O Adi! Accept Islam and you will find peace.' He repeated this sentence three times. I said, 'I am already following a religion.' The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'I know your religion better than you.' I said, 'You know my religion better than I do?' The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Yes! Are you not from the "Rakusiyyah" who consume a quarter of the spoils of their people?' I said, 'Why not?' The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Even though this is not lawful in your religion.' What the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said after this, I submitted to it. Then the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'I know what is preventing you from accepting Islam. You think that the followers of this religion are weak and insignificant people whom the Arabs have rejected. Tell me, do you know the city of Hira?' I said, 'I have not seen it, but I have certainly heard of it.' The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'By Him in Whose hand is my soul, Allah will surely complete this religion until a woman will leave Hira and perform the circumambulation of the Ka'bah without any guard, and soon the treasures of Kisra bin Hurmuz will be conquered.' I asked in amazement, 'Kisra bin Hurmuz?' The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Yes! Kisra bin Hurmuz. And soon so much wealth will be spent that there will be no one left to accept it.' Hazrat Adi (may Allah be pleased with him) says, 'Indeed, now a woman leaves Hira and performs the circumambulation of the Ka'bah without any guard, and I myself was among those who conquered the treasures of Kisra bin Hurmuz. And by Him in Whose hand is my soul, the third thing will also surely occur, because the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) has foretold it.'"

It is narrated from Hazrat Adi (may Allah be pleased with him) that whoever leads us in prayer should perform the bowing and prostration completely, because among us are the weak, the elderly, the sick, travelers, and those in need. And we used to pray in this manner during the blessed era of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Hazrat Adi that once I submitted in the presence of the Messenger of Allah, O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! My father used to maintain ties of kinship and do such and such deeds. The Noble Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Your father had one objective (fame) which he achieved. I asked: I am asking you about that food which I would only leave in a state of compulsion? The Noble Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Do not leave anything in which you appear to resemble Christianity. I asked: If I release my dog for hunting, and it catches the prey, but I do not have anything to slaughter it with, can I slaughter it with a sharp stone or the edge of a stick? The Noble Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Shed the blood with whatever you wish and take the name of Allah over it. The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain.

Husayn narrated to us, Shu'bah narrated to us, and he mentioned it with his chain, except that he said: I heard Murayy ibn Qatariyy al-Ta'i, and he said: "Indeed, your father intended a matter, and he attained it." Simak said: He means the remembrance.

Narrated to us Bahz, narrated to us Hammad ibn Salamah, narrated to us Simak ibn Harb. He mentioned it regarding the place of hunting, and said: "Let the blood flow."

It is narrated from Hazrat Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to him and asked him for one hundred dirhams. He said, "You are asking me for only one hundred dirhams while I am the son of Hatim Tai. By Allah, I will not give you anything." Then he said, "I heard the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Whoever swears an oath about something and then sees something better, let him do that which is better (and offer expiation for his oath)."

It is narrated from Hazrat Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) that I asked the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), we release our trained dogs on the hunt?" The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Eat of what they catch for you." I asked, "Even if it kills it?" The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Yes, provided that no other dogs have joined with it." I asked about the game that dies by the broad side of an arrow, so the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "If you kill the game with the sharp edge of your arrow, then you may eat it, but if you kill it with the broad side of the arrow, do not eat it."

It is narrated from Hazrat Adi (may Allah be pleased with him) that I once submitted in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! When we hunt, sometimes we do not find a knife, so what should we do? The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Shed blood with whatever you wish, taking the name of Allah.

Yunus narrated to us, Hammad—meaning Ibn Zayd—narrated to us, Ayyub informed us, from Muhammad ibn Sirin, from Abu Ubaydah ibn Hudhayfah, from a man, who said: I used to ask people about the hadith of Adi ibn Hatim, while he was beside me and I did not ask him about it. So I went to him and asked him, and he said: Yes, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was sent when he was sent, and he mentioned the hadith...