It was also recorded by Muslim (1) through the narration of Suraij, and we reach him with an even higher chain.

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khaḍir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī informed us in the year 700 AH; al-Musallam ibn Aḥmad informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Dāraquṭnī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Hārūn al-Iskāf narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Shāhīn narrated to us; Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUtbah, from Ibn Masʿūd, who said:

Charity was mentioned in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said, “Among the acts of charity is to unbind a neck and to set a soul free.”

A man asked, “Messenger of Allah, are the two not the same?”

He replied, “No. To set him free is to manumit him outright, whereas to unbind him is to contribute toward his purchase price.”

The man said, “What if I cannot do that?”

He said, “Feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty.”

The man asked, “What if I cannot find the means?”

He said, “Enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong.”

The man then said, “What if I am still unable?”

He said, “Then withhold your evil.”

This narration is singular (gharīb); Khālid al-Ṭaḥḥān alone transmitted it (2).

ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Salām the judge and Sittu al-Ahl bint ʿIlwān told us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ibrāhīm the jurist informed us; ʿAbd al-Mughīth ibn—