A camel too has seven shares

Question

Question: “Ten may share in one camel” (al-Nasa’i). What is the meaning of the hadith of al-Nasa’i? Can ten people share in one camel, whereas what we have heard is that only seven people can share in a camel?

Answer

This narration is the evidence of some of the Zahiris (ashab al-zawahir, literalists); it is not the madhhab of any of the four imams. Rather, the position of the majority (jumhur) is that in a camel too only seven may share, no more!

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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