2416 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar reported to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us; he said: my grandfather Yaʿqūb told me; he said: Aḥmad ibn Shabbuwaih al-Marwazī narrated to us; he said: Sulaymān ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; he said: I recited this before ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from his father, who said:

Abū Bakr’s wealth once reached the apex—one thousand uqiyyahs of silver, an amount no man of Quraysh had ever surpassed—yet he later spent every bit of it in the path of Allah.

Fulayḥ added: I have been informed that, in the pre-Islamic period, the recognized pinnacle of affluence was one thousand uqiyyahs of silver. Among the Anṣār, the equivalent was what they called a jadhādh of one thousand wasqs, measured by the earliest standard; a wasq equals sixty sāʿs, and every two sāʿs constitute a wiqr, the load a camel carries.