= A chain transmitted through Abdullah ibn Maslama, from Sulayman ibn Bilal, from Yahya ibn Saʿid, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyab, from Muʿammar. It is also reported by Ahmad, 3/454, through the isnad of Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Umawi, from Yahya ibn Saʿid, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyab, from Muʿammar. Abu Dawud (3447) and Muslim (1605) (130) likewise record it through several chains from Muhammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAtaʾ, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyab, from Muʿammar ibn ʿAbd Allah. Al-ihtikar (hoarding) means withholding food or other commodities so that their price will rise; the verbal noun is al-hikrah. Al-khatiʾ denotes a sinful wrongdoer. One says khatiʾa yakhtaʾu, “he is khatiʾ,” when he commits a sin, as in the Qurʾanic verse: “Indeed Pharaoh, Haman, and their troops were khatiʾin” (Q 28:8). By contrast, akhtaʾa yukhtiʾ, “he is mukhtiʾ,” is used when someone does what is contrary to what is right. The plain sense of the hadith is that hoarding is prohibited, whether of food or anything else. This was also the view of Abu Yusuf, the companion of Abu Hanifah, who said: “Anything whose withholding harms people constitutes hoarding, even if it be gold or clothing.” (*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 7/336; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-kabir, 1/348; al-Tarikh al-saghir, 2/314; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-taʿdil, 2/294; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, 7/34–35; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-k amal, fol. 114; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-tahdhib, 1/69/1; Tadhkirat al-huffaz, 1/369; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 1/354; al-Dhahabi, al-Kashif, 1/131; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib, 1/340; Ibn Hajar, Tabaqat al-huffaz, 155; al-Khazraji, Khulasat tadhhib al-k amal, 37; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-dhahab, 2/20.