209 – Muḥammad ibn Hārūn narrated to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Farrāʾ narrated to us; he said, “I heard Yūsuf ibn Asbāṭ say: ‘When the ʿaṭāʾ (state stipend) is handed out to the people and you are engaged in buying and selling, then hold back from trade until their dirhams have mingled with other money.’”