Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān al-Taymī narrated to us; I heard ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal say:
Shuraḥbīl told me that he heard Abū Hurayrah, Abū Saʿīd, and Ibn ʿUmar relate that the Prophet of Allah ﷺ said, “Gold for gold, weight for weight, like for like; whoever gives more or demands more has fallen into usury. If I did not hear this from them, then may Allah cast me into the Fire.”
This is a singular, elevated isnād.
Shuraḥbīl ibn Saʿd was a Madinan; he is not strong (1).
124 – Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣah al-Umawī *
The foremost of the poets, Abū al-Samṭ—some say Abū al-Hindām—Marwān ibn Sulaymān ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ḥafṣah Yazīd, a client of Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Umawī.
Marwān set him free on the Day of the Dār (2) because he testified openly on that occasion (3).
It is also reported that Abū Ḥafṣah had been a Jewish physician who accepted Islam at the hand of ʿUthmān, or at the hand of Marwān.
Another view holds that Abū Ḥafṣah was taken captive at Istakhr.
Marwān ibn Abī Ḥafṣah was originally from al-Yamāmah. He later came to Baghdad and eulogized al-Mahdī and al-Rashīd.
(1) In al-Mizan the author reports that Ibn Maʿin, Malik, al-Nasaʾi, Abu Zurʿa, al-Darqutni and Ibn ʿAdi all judged him weak; yet the substance of the hadith is supported by the narration of ʿUbadah ibn al-Samit recorded by Muslim (no. 1587), Abu Dawud (no. 3349) and al-Tirmidhi (no. 1240).
(*) Poetry and Poets, p. 395; al-Tabari, History, vol. 8, pp. 153, 181, 225; al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 173; al-Aghani, vol. 10, pp. 71, 95; al-Marzubani, Muʿjam, p. 396; al-Murtada, al-Amali, vol. 2, p. 155; vol. 3, pp. 4, 16, 26; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 13, p. 145; Raghbat al-Amal, vol. 6, p. 82; vol. 7, pp. 37, 45; Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 6, p. 217; vol. 7, p. 56; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, vol. 5, p. 189; al-Falaka wa-l-Maflukun, p. 80; Mataliʿ al-Budur, vol. 1, p. 73.
(2) That is, the house of the caliph ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan. He remained in his residence when the fitna (civil strife) erupted and was martyred there, so the event became known as “Yawm al-Dar” (the Day of the House).
(3) Tabaqat al-Shuʿaraʾ (p. 42) by Ibn al-Muʿtazz explains: “because he distinguished himself in battle that day.”