al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1621
✧ Virtue of Leniency in Selling and Collecting Debts
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، ثَنَا الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ، ثَنَا سَالِمٌ الْخَيَّاطُ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ - ؓ
أَنَّهُ سَاوَمَ رَجُلًا بِأَرْضٍ حَتَّى وَجَبَ الْبَيْعُ، أَوْ كَادَ أَنْ يَجِبَ، فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ: وَاللهِ لَا أُعْطِيكَ حَتَّى تَزِيدَنِي عَشَرَةَ آلَافٍ. فَالْتَفَتَ عُثْمَانُ ؓ إِلَى رَجُلٍ، فَقَالَ: أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ: رَحِمَ اللهُ رَجُلًا سَمْحَ التَّقَاضِي، سَمْحَ الِاقْتِضَاءِ ؟ قَالُوا: نَعَمْ. فَزَادَهُ عَشَرَةَ آلَافٍ، وَأَخَذَ الْأَرْضَ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Abū Khaythamah
- al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Makhlad
- Sālim al-Khayyāṭ
- ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
✧ He bargained with a man over some land until the sale was concluded, or nearly concluded. The man said: By God, I will not give it to you until you increase me ten thousand. Uthman ؓ turned to a man and said: Do you know that the Messenger of God ﷺ said: May God have mercy on a man who is easy-going in collecting, easy-going in demanding? They said: Yes. So he increased him ten thousand and took the land.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 14658Musnad Ahmad 508Musnad Ahmad 6963al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 11091Musnad al-Bazzar 424
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ)d. between 141 AH and 150 AHسَالِمٌ الْخَيَّاطُصدوق سيء الحفظحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, or: 213 AH, or: 214 AHالضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AHأَبُو خَيْثَمَةَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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