Chapter: The Prohibition Of Striking Or Branding Animals On The Face
Jabir reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbade (the animals to be beaten) on the face or cauterisation on the face.
This hadith has been reported on the authority of Jabir b. 'Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.
Jabir reported that there happened to pass before Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) an ass the face of which had been cauterised, whereupon he said: Allah has cursed one who has cauterised it (on the face).
Ibn Abbas reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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.