Musnad Ahmad 27250

Translation

✧ He sent a servant boy of his with a saʿ of wheat, saying to him, “Sell it, then buy barley with its price.” The boy went and bought a saʿ and a bit more than a saʿ. When Maʿmar came, the boy informed him of that, and Maʿmar said to him, “Did you do that? Go and return it, and take only like for like, for I used to hear the Messenger of God ﷺ say: ‘Food for food, like for like.’” And our food then was barley. It was said, “But it is not the same.” He said, “I fear that it may be a form of riba.”

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 27839

Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 840إِنِّي كُنْتُ أَسْمَعُ رَسُولَ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -يَقُولُ: { اَلطَّعَامُ بِالطَّعَامِ مِثْلاً بِمِثْلٍ " وَكَانَ طَعَامُنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ اَلشَّعِيرَ }

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1592

Narrators

1. 1
   Maʿmar b. ʿAbdullāh b. Nāfiʿ b. Naḍlah al-Māzinī

   senior Companiond. between 41 AH, and: 60 AH
   مَعْمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نَافِعٍ بْنِ نَضْلَةَ الْمَازِنِيُّصحابي كبير
   عن
2. 2
   Busr b. Saʿīd al-Madanī

   trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 100 AH, also said: 101 AH
   بُسْرَ بْنَ سَعِيدٍثقة جليل
   حدثه
3. 3
   Sālim b. Abī Umayyah al-Taymī

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), and he would narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd said: died during the caliphate of Marwān b. Muḥammad, Muḥammad b. al-Muthannā said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ: 129 AH. In Ibn al-Ḥadhdhāʾ's book: 130 AH, also said: 133 AH
   أَبُو النَّضْرِثقة ثبت ، وكان يرسل
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ibn Lahīʿah

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory became confused after his books were burned (khallaṭa baʿda iḥtirāq kutubihi); the narrations of Ibn al-Mubārak and Ibn Wahb from him are more sound than those of others.d. 173 AH, or 174 AH, also said 170 AH, also said 175 AH
   ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَصدوق ، خلط بعد احتراق كتبه ، ورواية ابن المبارك وابن وهب عنه أعدل من غيرهما
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ḥasan

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 208 AH, or: 209, or: 210 AH
   حَسَنٌثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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