“The narrations of the people of Syria from him are unsound, and because of them he was deemed weak.”

Ibn ʿAsākir likewise recorded it through this route in his History of Damascus (5/213/2) and said: “I do not know this Abū al-Rabīʿ or Khālid except through this route.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ responded to this in al-Lisān, saying: “As for Abū al-Rabīʿ, he is al-Khuttalī, without doubt.”

I say: He is trustworthy, one of Muslim’s narrators, and his biography is given in al-Tahdhīb and elsewhere.

Note: Al-Tirmidhī said: “By ‘oil,’ he meant perfume.”

620 — “A Muslim’s lost property is a burning ember from the Fire.”

Aḥmad (5/80), al-Dārimī (2/266), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr (p. 174) and al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (1/102/2) narrated it through Saʿīd al-Jurayrī, from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from Muṭarrif, who said: Abū Muslim al-Jadhmī—of Jadhīmah, of ʿAbd al-Qays—told us; al-Jārūd told us, attributing it to the Prophet with this wording.

Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī added: “Regarding lost property, if you find it, announce it. Do not conceal it or make it disappear. If its owner is identified, return it to him; otherwise, it is Allah’s property, which He gives to whom He wills.”

I say: This Abū al-ʿAlāʾ was Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr. He is trustworthy, but there was disagreement concerning this chain from him. Saʿīd al-Jurayrī narrated it in this manner, and Qatādah and Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ corroborated him in the versions of Aḥmad and al-Dārimī. In one version recorded by Aḥmad from al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, however, he omitted Abū Muslim al-Jadhmī from the chain. The correct version, however,