one hundred date palms for me; when they have taken root, bring me the weight of a single date-stone in gold.’

I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him what had been agreed. He said, ‘Purchase your freedom on those terms, and bring me a bucket of water from the well from which you irrigate those palms.’

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed for blessing over it, then I watered the saplings. By Allah, I planted the full hundred palms, and not one of them failed to sprout.

When I informed the Prophet ﷺ, he gave me a piece of gold. I carried it off, placed it on one side of the scales, and put a date-stone on the other; by Allah, the gold piece did not so much as rise from the ground. I returned to the Messenger of Allah and told him, and he set me free. (1)

This ḥadith is objectionable (munkar) and not authentic.

ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Quddus is abandoned (matrūk).

Al-Thawri and Sharik corroborated parts of the report, but he—meaning ʿAbd Allah—expanded the narration and spoiled it, mentioning Mecca, the Ḥijr, orchards there, and muddling other points.

A portion of it was transmitted by Abu Ahmad al-Zubayri, from Sufyan, from al-ʿAlaʾ, from Abu al-Tufayl.

It was also related by al-Mubarak, the brother of al-Thawri, from his father, from ʿUbayd the copyist, who said: from Abu al-Bakhtari, from Salman.

In every one of these versions it says: ‘I was from the people of Jayy.’

Al-Firyabi and others reported: from Sufyan, from ʿAwf, from Abu ʿUthman, from Salman, who said, ‘I was a man from Ramahurmuz,’ and Ibn Mandah named the Persian woman as Amat Allah.

Al-Tabarani, in his Muʿjam al-Kabir, said: ‘Ahmad ibn Dawud al-Makki narrated to us, Qays ibn Hafs al-Darimi narrated to us, Maslamah (2) ibn ʿAlqamah narrated to us, Dawud ibn Abi Hind narrated to us, from …’