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Sahih al-Bukhari 2076

One should be lenient and generous in bargaining

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو غَسَّانَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُطَرِّفٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ؓ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ:

«رَحِمَ اللَّهُ رَجُلاً سَمْحًا إِذَا بَاعَ، وَإِذَا اشْتَرَى، وَإِذَا اقْتَضَى.»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. ʿAyyāsh
  2. Abū Ghassān Muḥammad b. Muṭarrif
  3. Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
  4. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
  5. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "May Allah have mercy on a man who is easygoing when he sells, when he buys, and when he seeks payment."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Riyadhus Shalihin 1368"رحم الله رجلا سمحًا إذا باع وإذا اشترى وإذا اقتضى"
  • Misykatul Mashabih 2790عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: رَحِمَ اللَّهُ رَجُلًا سَمْحًا إِذَا بَاعَ وَإِذَا اشْتَرَى وَإِذَا اقْتَضَى رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضل
    حدثني
  3. trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 160 AH
    أَبُو غَسَّانَ ، مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُطَرِّفٍثقة
    حدثنا
  4. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 210 AH, or: 218 AH, or: 219 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  5. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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