Abū Ṣāliḥ—namely, Maḥbūb ibn Mūsā al-Farrāʾ—said, “Abū Isḥāq—al-Fazārī—related to us from Ibn ʿUyaynah, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, who said: A man remarked in the presence of Jābir ibn Zayd, ‘The Companions of Muhammad saw no harm in the dakheel.’ Jābir replied, ‘They were more dignified than that.’”⦘(1)

In their idiom, the dakheel is the muhallil. Thus the furthest that has been transmitted from them is that they did not disapprove of it.(2) Yet there is a clear distinction between merely finding no fault with something and making it a condition for the validity and permissibility of the contract; the latter is unknown from any one of them, without exception.

His statement, “They were more dignified than that,” means that they were too scrupulous to bring into their wager an outsider who served as a borrowed participant. For this reason Jābir ibn Zayd, the narrator of the incident, said, “The two parties to a wager have no need of a muhallil.”

Al-Jawzajānī and others have transmitted this from him as well.(3)