IT IS FORBIDDEN TO BEAT THE ANIMAL ON THE FACE OR CAUTERISE AT THE FACE(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Chapter# 22, Book 24, Number 5281:
Jabir reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade (the animals to be beaten) on the face or cauterisation on the face.
Book 24, Number 5282:
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Jabir b. ‘Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.
Book 24, Number 5283:
Jabir reported that there happened to pass before Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) an ass the face of which had been cauterised, whereupon he said: Allah has cursed one who has cauterised it (on the face).
Book 24, Number 5284:
Ibn Abbas reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) saw an ass which had been cauterised on the face. He disapproved of it saying: By Allah, I do not cauterise (the animal) but on a part at a distance from the face, and commanded (for the cauterisation) of his ass and it was cauterised on the buttocks and he was the first to cauterise on the buttocks.
Book 24, Number 5285:
Anas reported that Umm Sulaim gave birth to a child. She said to him: Anas, see that nothing is given to this child until he is brought to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) in the morning, so that he should chew some dates and touch his palate with it. I went to him in the morning and he was in the garden at that time having the mantle of Jauniyya over him and he was bus in cauterising (the camels) which had been brought to him (as spoils of war) in victory (over the enemy).
Book 24, Number 5286:
Anas reported that when his mother gave birth to a child they brought that child to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) so that he might chew some dates and touch his palate with them. and Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) was at that time in the fold busy in cauterising the animals Shu’ba said: So far as I know (he was cauterising) their ears.
Book 24, Number 5287:
Anas reported: We went to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as he was in the fold and he was cauterising the animals of the flock and I think (he was cauterising them) on their ears. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu’ba through another chain of transmitters.
Book 24, Number 5288:
Anas b. Malik reported: I saw in the hand of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) an instrument for cauterisation and he was cauterising the caracia collected as Zakat.