Sahih Bukhari 4227 — Ibn Abbas on Donkey Meat

Summary of Sahih Bukhari Hadith 4227

This hadith about donkey meat is careful in its wording. Ibn Abbas says he did not know whether the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم forbade donkey meat because the animals were people's beasts of burden and he disliked that their transport would be lost, or whether he forbade it permanently on the day of Khaibar. That makes the core topic legal uncertainty within the report itself. The text is useful for readers searching for the donkey meat ruling hadith because it shows that a companion honestly reported what he did not know. It does not force a reason beyond the narration. The practical lesson is that Islamic knowledge should be handled with care. When the text records uncertainty, a writer should not turn it into a claim that the narrator did not make.