al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12206
✧ The choice regarding taking lost property
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أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرَانَ الْعَدْلُ بِبَغْدَادَ، أَنْبَأَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الرَّمَادِيُّ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَنْبَأَ سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَ، قَالَ:
خَرَجْتُ مَعَ زَيْدِ بْنِ صُوحَانَ، وَسَلْمَانَ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ، فَالْتَقَطْتُ سَوْطًا بِالْعُذَيْبِ، فَقَالَا: دَعْهُ دَعْهُ، قُلْتُ: وَاللهِ لَا أَدَعُهُ تَأْكُلُهُ السِّبَاعُ، لَأَسْتَمْتِعَنَّ بِهِ، فَقَدِمْتُ عَلَى أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: أَحْسَنْتَ أَحْسَنْتَ، إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ صُرَّةً فِيهَا مِائَةُ دِينَارٍ، فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلًا. فَعَرَّفْتُهَا حَوْلًا، ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهُ، فَقَالَ: " عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلًا ". فَعَرَّفْتُهَا حَوْلًا، ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهُ فَقَالَ: " عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلًا ". ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُ بِهَا بَعْدَ أَحْوَالٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ، فَقَالَ: " اعْرِفْ عَدَدَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا وَوِعَاءَهَا، فَإِنْ جَاءَ أَحَدٌ يُخْبِرُكَ بِعَدَدِهَا وَوِكَائِهَا فَادْفَعْهَا إِلَيْهِ، وَإِلَّا فَاسْتَمْتِعْ بِهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Bishrān al-ʿAdl Bibaghdād Anbaʾ Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār
- Aḥmad b. Manṣūr al-Ramādī
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq Anbaʾ Sufyān
- Salamah b. Kuhayl
- Sūwayd b. Ghafalah
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I went out with Zayd b. Ṣūḥān and Salmān b. Rabīʿah, and I picked up a whip at al-ʿUdhayb. They said: "Leave it, leave it." I said: "By God, I will not leave it to be eaten by wild beasts; I will make use of it." Then I came to Ubayy b. Kaʿb and mentioned that to him. He said: "You did well, you did well. In the time of the Messenger of God ﷺ I found a purse containing one hundred dinars, so I came to the Prophet ﷺ and he said: 'Announce it for a year.' So I announced it for a year, then I came to him, and he said: 'Announce it for a year.' So I announced it for a year, then I came to him and he said: 'Announce it for a year.' Then I came to him with it after three years, and he said: 'Know its number, its cord, and its container. If someone comes and tells you its number and its cord, give it to him; otherwise, make use of it.'"
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- 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 AHأُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍمن فضلاء الصحابةصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 76 AH, or: 80 AH, 81 AH, 82 AHسُوَيْدِ بْنِ غَفَلَةَثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 121 AH, or 122 AH, or 123 AHسَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةأنبأ
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), ḥāfiẓd. 265 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الرَّمَادِيُّثقة ، حافظحدثنا
- d. 341 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُأنبأ
- d. 415 AHأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرَانَ الْعَدْلُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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