Sahih al-Bukhari 5513
صحيح البخاري#5513Sahihحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، قَالَ دَخَلْتُ مَعَ أَنَسٍ عَلَى الْحَكَمِ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ، فَرَأَى غِلْمَانًا ـ أَوْ فِتْيَانًا ـ نَصَبُوا دَجَاجَةً يَرْمُونَهَا. فَقَالَ أَنَسٌ نَهَى النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنْ تُصْبَرَ الْبَهَائِمُ.
Narrated Hisham bin Zaid:Anas and I went to Al-Hakam bin Aiyub. Anas saw some boys shooting at a tied hen. Anas said, "The Prophet has forbidden the shooting of tied or confined animals
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave, each scholar counted once — one dissenting opinion no longer speaks for all of them. If any scholar calls a narration fabricated, that verdict is shown instead, whatever the others say. When they judged only its chain of narrators (“Isnaad”), the label says “Sound chain”. Each scholar's own wording:
Every narration in Sahih al-Bukhari is accepted as Sahih (authentic) by the established status of the book.
In-book reference: 72:39