Musnad Ahmad 281
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِعَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ
حَمَلْتُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، فَأَضَاعَهُ صَاحِبُهُ، فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَبْتَاعَهُ، وَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ بَائِعُهُ بِرُخْصٍ، فَقُلْتُ: حَتَّى أَسْأَلَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ: لَا تَبْتَعْهُ، وَإِنْ أَعْطَاكَهُ بِدِرْهَمٍ فَإِنَّ الَّذِي يَعُودُ فِي صَدَقَتِهِ، كَالْكَلْبِ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Mālik
- Zayd b. Aslam
- Abīhiʿan ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
✧ I gave a horse in the cause of God, but its owner neglected it. I wanted to buy it back, and I thought he would sell it cheaply. So I said, 'Let me ask the Messenger of God ﷺ first.' He said, 'Do not buy it, even if he gives it to you for a dirham, for the one who takes back his charity is like a dog that returns to its vomit.'
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Darussalam | Sahih (Darussalam) [ Al Bukhari (1490) and Muslim (1620) | sunnah.com |
Same hadith, other wordings
- Bulughul Maram 941{ حَمَلْتُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اَللَّهِ, فَأَضَاعَهُ صَاحِبُهُ, فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ بَائِعُهُ بِرُخْصٍ، فَسَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -عَنْ ذَلِكَ. فَقَالَ: " لَا تَبْتَعْهُ, وَإِنْ أَعْطَاكَهُ بِدِرْهَمٍ … }
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍram (lived through both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras)d. 80 AH, also said: after 60 AHأَبِيهِثقة مخضرمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AHزَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسلعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٍالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتينعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.