Musnad Ahmad 21279

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ sent me as a zakat collector to Baliyy, ʿUdhrah, and all of Banū Saʿd b. Hudhaym b. Quḍāʿah.—[My father] said: And Yaʿqūb said in another place: “of Quḍāʿah.”—He said: I collected zakat from them until I came to the last man among them. His dwelling and land were among the closest of their dwellings to the Messenger of God ﷺ in Madinah. He said: When he gathered his wealth for me, I found upon it only a bint makhāḍ (a one-year-old female camel)—that is, I informed him that it was due as zakat. He said: The man said: “That is one with no milk and no riding capability. By God, neither the Messenger of God ﷺ nor any messenger of his has ever stood over my wealth before you. I would not lend God [Blessed and Exalted] from my wealth what has no milk and no riding capability. But here is a young, fat she-camel—take it.” He said: I said to him: “I will not take what I was not commanded to take. The Messenger of God ﷺ is near you. If you wish, go to him and present what you presented to me. If he accepts it from you, it is accepted, and if he returns it to you, it is returned.” He said: “Indeed, I will do that.” He said: He set out with me, bringing the she-camel he had offered me, until we came to the Messenger of God ﷺ. He said: He said to him: “O Prophet of God, your messenger came to me to take the zakat of my wealth. By God, neither the Messenger of God ﷺ nor any messenger of his has ever stood over my wealth before him. I gathered my wealth for him, and he claimed that I owe a bint makhāḍ, which is one with no milk and no riding capability. I offered him a young, fat she-camel to take, but he refused me that.” Then he said: “Here it is—I have brought it to you, O Messenger of God; take it.” He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said to him: “That is what is due upon you. But if you voluntarily give something better, we accept it from you, and God will reward you for it.” He said: “Here it is, O Messenger of God; I have brought it to you—take it.” He said: The Messenger of God ﷺ ordered that it be taken, and he supplicated for blessing in his wealth.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 430aSahih Muslim 430bSunan Abi Dawud 1583Sunan Abi Dawud 1000

Narrators

1. 1
   Ubay b. Kaʿb

   One of the distinguished Companions (min fuḍalāʾ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 19 AH, or 20 AH, or 22 AH, or 30 AH, or 32 AH, or 33 AH
   أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUmārah b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 73 AH
   عُمَارَةَ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Saʿd b. Zurārah

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زُرَارَةَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad Ibn Ḥazm

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: 135 AH, from Ibn al-Athīr: 136 AH. In al-Ṣarīfīnī's book: 144 AH. Also said: 130 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍثقة
   حدثني
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq

   Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
   عن
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Yaʿqūb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
   يَعْقُوبُثقة فاضل .
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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