Sunan an-Nasa'i 4679

Translation

the Messenger of Allah ruled that if a man found (his goods) in the possession of a man who was not guilty, then if he wished he could give the man what he had paid for it, or if he wished he could go after the one who had stolen it. Abu Bakr and 'Umar passed similar judgments.

Notes

• وَقَضَى بِذَلِكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Albani

  إسناده صحيح لكن الصواب أسيد بن ظهير

  in صحيح سنن النسائي, p. 4693

Narrators

1. 1
   Usayd b. Ḥuḍayr al-Ashhalī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 20 AH or before it, or 21 AH
   أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ الْأَشْهَلِيُّصحابي جليل
   حدثني
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. He died after ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ, and ʿAṭāʾ died in the year 115 AH; it is also said: in the year 114.
   عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ خَالِدٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn Jurayj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), excellent (fāḍil); he used to commit concealment (tadlīs) and to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 149 AH or 150 AH or 151 AH or 160 AH
   ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍثقة فقيه فاضل ، وكان يدلس ويرسل
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Masʿadah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 202 AH
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ مَسْعَدَةَثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Hārūn b. ʿAbdillāh

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 241 AH, or: 243 AH, or: 249 AH
   هَارُونُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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