Muwatta Malik 936
موطأ مالك#936SahihThese are the words of a Successor — the generation after the Companions — not of the Prophet ﷺ.
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، أَنَّ أَبَاهُ، كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي الْبَقَرَةِ مِنَ الْوَحْشِ بَقَرَةٌ وَفِي الشَّاةِ مِنَ الظِّبَاءِ شَاةٌ .
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father used to say, "For the female of wild animals a cow is given and for the female of gazelles a sheep
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave — 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. Each scholar's own wording:
Salim al-HilaliMaqtu Sahih
In-book reference: 20:9