Ibn ʿAdī (1) said, “His reports are fair, even though the critics have declared him weak; therefore his ḥadith may be recorded. Indeed, Mālik, Shuʿbah, and al-Layth all narrated from him.”
Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī related: “I heard Qutaybah say, ‘I was present at the death of Ibn Luhayʿah, and I heard al-Layth remark, “He has left no one behind like him.”’”
Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah said: “Zayd ibn Ḥabbāb narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, from Ibn Luhayʿah, from Khālid ibn Abī ʿImrān, from al-Qāsim and Sālim, concerning a slave-woman who is praying and attains her freedom mid-prayer. They said: ‘She should draw her garment over herself and continue with her prayer.’ (2)”
In the Muwaṭṭaʾ it is reported through ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that “the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the ʿurbān sale.” (3)
They said: “No one besides Ibn Luhayʿah has transmitted this from ʿAmr.” (4)
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shuʿayb ibn al-Layth said: “My father narrated to us; al-Layth narrated to me; Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to me, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever wakes up fasting and then, out of forgetfulness, eats or drinks, it is Allah who has fed him and given him drink.’” (5)
(1) Ibn ʿAdī, al-Kāmil, vol. 2, p. 211.
(2) Ibn ʿAdī, al-Kāmil, vol. 2, p. 212.
(3) Mālik, al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, vol. 2, p. 128, Book of Sales, chapter “What has been reported concerning the ʿurbūn-sale.” It is also narrated by Abū Dāwūd (no. 3502) in the Book of Sales, chapter “Concerning the ʿurbūn,” by Ibn Mājah (no. 2192) in the Book of Trade, chapter “The ʿurbūn-sale,” and by Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil, vol. 2, p. 212.
The ʿurbūn is a transaction in which the buyer pays the seller a sum on the understanding that, if he finalises the purchase, that amount will be counted as part of the price, whereas if he cancels the deal the seller keeps the money and the buyer cannot reclaim it. The verbs used are aʿraba, ʿaraba, ʿarban, ʿurbān and ʿarbūn. It is said to be so named because it makes the contract “more explicit,” that is, it confirms and protects the sale so that no one else can buy the item. According to the jurists the sale is invalid, because it involves a conditional clause and gharar (uncertainty). See Ibn al-Athīr, al-Nihāya.
(4) Tanwīr al-Ḥawālik, vol. 2, p. 118: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr remarks that scholars have debated the identity of “the trustworthy narrator” whom Mālik cites in this isnād (which reads: Mālik, from a trustworthy narrator, from ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb). The most plausible view, he says, is that Mālik took it from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn Lahīʿa, or from Ibn Wahb, from Ibn Lahīʿa, for Ibn Lahīʿa heard the report from ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb and related it to Ibn Wahb and others.
(5) Ibn ʿAdī also cites it in al-Kāmil, vol. 2, p. 212. The ḥadīth, however, is authentic through a different chain, and has accordingly been recorded elsewhere.