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
- ʿAlī b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Ghassān Muḥammad b. Muṭarrif
- Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
- 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
Musnad Ahmad 14658Musnad Ahmad 508Musnad Ahmad 6963al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11091Musnad al-Bazzar 424
Narrators
- 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 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضلحدثني
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 160 AHأَبُو غَسَّانَ ، مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُطَرِّفٍثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 210 AH, or: 218 AH, or: 219 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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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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