ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr is not well-known. Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, while al-Taqrīb states: “He is acceptable.”

The hadith has also been narrated with the wording: “Whatever you give your wives is charity for you.”

Al-Ṭayālisī recorded it (p. 194, no. 1364): Muḥammad ibn Abū Ḥumayd narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī narrated to me from his father, who said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb came upon ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī while he was bargaining for a cloak in the marketplace. They said [sic], “What are you doing, ʿAmr?” He replied, “I am buying this in order to give it in charity.” He said, “So you are, then.” He then went on, but returned and said, “ʿAmr, what became of the cloak?” He replied, “I bought it and gave it in charity.” He asked, “To whom?” He said, “To my companion.” He asked, “And who is your companion?” He said, “My wife.” He said, “And you gave it in charity to your wife?!” He replied, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, say”—then he mentioned the hadith. ʿUmar said, “ʿAmr, do not lie about the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him.” He replied, “By Allah, I will not leave you until we go to ʿĀʾishah and ask her.”

They went until they entered upon ʿĀʾishah, and ʿAmr said to her, “My mother, ʿUmar is telling me not to lie about the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him. I adjure you by Allah: did you hear the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, say, ‘Whatever you give your wives is charity for you’?” She said, “O Allah, yes. O Allah, yes.”

Al-Haythamī cited it (4/324) with similar wording, adding at its end that ʿUmar said, “How did I miss this?! Bargaining in the marketplaces distracted me.” He said: “Al-Bazzār narrated it, and Aḥmad narrated: ‘Whatever a man gives his wife is charity.’ In both their chains is Muḥammad ibn Abū Ḥumayd, who is weak.”

I say: He was not alone in narrating it; rather, al-Zuburqān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayyah corroborated him, with the wording: “Everything you do for your family is charity.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (2/1/396). Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī, whom al-Ḥāfiẓ deemed acceptable. Thus, through the combined strength of the two routes from him, the hadith is good, for it has supporting narrations with the same meaning, which may be found in al-Targhīb (3/82).