Rif Shabbat 24a

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BEGIN PEREK FIVE
{Shabbat 51b continues}
MISHNA:
WHEREWITH MAY AN ANIMAL GO OUT [ON THE SABBATH], AND WHEREWITH MAY IT NOT GO OUT?
A CAMEL MAY GO FORTH WITH A BIT,
A DROMEDARY [NE'AKAH] WITH ITS NOSE-RING [HOTEM],
A LYBIAN ASS WITH A HALTER,
A HORSE WITH ITS CHAIN,
AND ALL CHAINWEARING ANIMALS MAY GO OUT WITH THEIR CHAINS AND BE LED BY THEIR CHAINS,
AND [WATER OF LUSTRATION] MAY BE SPRINKLED UPON THEM,
AND THEY MAY BE IMMERSED IN THEIR PLACE

Gemara:
What is meant by a NE'AKAH WITH A HOTEM? — Said Rabba bar bar Chana: A white [female] camel with its iron nose-ring.

A LYBIAN ASS WITH A HALTER. Rabba bar bar Chana {our gemara has simply Rav Huna} said: That means a Lybian ass with an iron halter.

Rav Yehuda cited Shmuel: They [the scholars] transposed them [in their questions] before Rabbi: What about one animal going forth with [the accoutrement] of the other? As for a dromedary [ne'akah] with a bit, there is no question; since it is not guarded thereby, it is a burden. The problem is in respect of a camel with a nose-ring. How is it: Since a bit is sufficient, this [the nose-ring] is a burden; or Perhaps an additional guard is not called a burden?

Rabbi Yishmael the son of Rabbi Yossi said before him: hus did my father rule: Four animals may go out with a bit: a horse, mule, camel and ass. What does this exclude? Surely it excludes a camel [from being led out] with a nose-ring? — No: it excludes a dromedary [ne'akah] with a bit {which, as we said before, was not a question, and it is surely considered a burden}.

And in a brayta they teach: A Lybian ass and a camel may go out with a bit.

{This would imply}: with a bit, yes, but with a nose-ring, no.
Thus it is clear that all excessive {additional} guards are considered burdens, and so is the halacha.

{Shabbat 52a}
And even though Shmuel said that the halacha is like Chanania who says that additional guards, we do not say that they are burdens -- the halacha is not like him {Shmuel}, for Rav argues on him and says that additional guards are burdens, and they try to disprove Rav, but the refutation does not stand, but rather three later Amoraim answer it. And from the fact that these three later Amoraim bunch up -- that they are Abaye, Rava, and Ravina -- and answer it all according to Rav, we deduce from this that the halacha is like him, and furthermore, it is established for us that Rav and Shmuel, the hal

"A HORSE WITH ITS CHAIN, AND ALL CHAINWEARING ANIMALS MAY GO OUT WITH THEIR CHAINS... {AND BE LED BY THEIR CHAINS}":

What is GO OUT and what is LED? —
Rav Huna said: [It means,] They may either go out [with the chain] wound round them, or led [by the chain].
And Shmuel said: