al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12214
✧ Announcing lost property, making it known, and calling witnesses over it
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وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ، أَنْبَأَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، ثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، ثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ، ثَنَا خَالِدٌ الْحَذَّاءُ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ، عَنْ عِيَاضِ بْنِ حِمَارٍ الْمُجَاشِعِيِّ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:
" مَنْ وَجَدَ لُقَطَةً فَلْيُشْهِدْ ذَا عَدْلٍ أَوْ ذَوَيْ عَدْلٍ، وَلَا يَكْتُمْ، وَلَا يُغَيِّبْ، فَإِذَا وَجَدَ صَاحِبَهَا، فَلْيَرُدَّهَا عَلَيْهِ، وَإِلَّا فَهِيَ مَالُ اللهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān Anbaʾ Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd
- Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq
- Musaddad
- Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh
- Khālid al-Ḥadhhāʾ
- Abū al-ʿAlāʾ
- Muṭarrif
- ʿIyāḍ b. Ḥimār al-Mujāshiʿī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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"Whoever finds a lost item, let him call upon one or two just persons as witnesses, and let him not conceal it nor hide it. If he finds its owner, let him return it to him; otherwise it is the property of Allah, which He gives to whom He wills."
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. He lived until around the year fiftyعِيَاضُ بْنُ حِمَارٍ الْمُجَاشِعِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 87 AH, or: 95 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died after the Plague of al-Jārif, and the Plague of al-Jārif was in the year 69 AHمُطَرِّفٍثقة عابد فاضلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 108 AH, or: 111 AH or before it.أَبِي الْعَلَاءِثقة .عن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); he narrates with omission of the intermediary (yursil).d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, or more.خَالِدٌ الْحَذَّاءُثقة يرسل.حدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 179 AH, or 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.خَالِدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. the end of 282 AH or the beginning of 283 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَحدثنا
- d. around 350 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍأنبأ
- d. 415 AHأَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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