The eminent and upright shaykh, Kamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī—during a public reading to him which I attended in Ṣafar of the year 680 AH, together with Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Shaybān—reported to us; he said: Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Tabarzad al-Baghdādī—during a reading before him—reported to us; the judge Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzār, and Abū al-Mawāhib Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Mulūk al-Warrāq, both said:
The judge Abū al-Ṭayyib Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭabarī reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ghitrīf reported to us; Abū Khalīfah narrated to us; Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; from Hishām, and Shuʿbah, from Qatādah, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:
The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:
“Whoever takes back his gift is like one who returns to his own vomit.”