The Unanimous Announcement of this Prohibition by the Early Scholars of Hadith

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Chapter headings found in the works of the early hadith scholars unanimously exhibit that the prohibitions outlined in this paper were commonplace in early Islamic legislative texts.

Two examples of such headings are cited in this paper; namely from the Muwatta' of Malik ibnu Anas and from the Sunan of ad-Darimi.

Some being more outspoken in the names of their chapters than others, all works of the early hadith scholars integrally dealt with this topic in a similar fashion. The following famous works named this prohibition explicitly:

Al-Muwatta' by Imam Malik, as-Sunan by At-Tirmidhi, as-Sunan by ad-Darimi, al-Musannaf by Ibnu Abi Shaybah, as-Sunanu-l-kubra by An-Nasa'i and al-Mustakhraj by Abu 'Awanah رحمهم الله.²⁸