Sunan Abi Dawud 2546
سنن أبي داود#2546Hasanحَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ مَرْوَانَ الرَّقِّيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي حَيَّانَ التَّيْمِيِّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو زُرْعَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، : أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ يُسَمِّي الأُنْثَى مِنَ الْخَيْلِ فَرَسًا .
Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to name a mare a horse
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:
Our source also lists this ruling under Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid, the editor of the printed edition it was taken from. It is al-Albani's ruling printed again, so it is counted once.
In-book reference: 15:70