I say: Its chain of transmission is good. Its narrators are all among al-Bukhārī’s narrators, except that he only narrated from Ḥumayd ibn al-Aswad—whose kunyah was Abū al-Aswad—in conjunction with another narrator. There is some slight criticism of him, to which al-Ḥāfiẓ alluded when he said: “Truthful, though he makes occasional errors.” As for ʿAbd Allah, his grandson, he is ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Aswad, and he is trustworthy.

1212 — “Do you know to whom I am sending you? To Allah’s people—the people of Mecca. So forbid them four things: combining a sale with a loan, two conditions in a sale, profit from what one does not bear liability for, and selling what one does not possess.”

It was recorded by al-Baghawī in Ḥadīth ʿĪsā ibn Sālim al-Shāshī (fol. 108/1): ʿĪsā narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent ʿAttāb ibn Asīd to Mecca, and he said—then he mentioned it.

I say: This is a sound chain of transmission. All its narrators are known and trustworthy, and are included among the narrators of al-Tahdhīb, apart from ʿĪsā ibn Sālim al-Shāshī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him in al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl (3/278), gave his kunyah as Abū Saʿīd, and said: “His nickname was ʿUways. He narrated from ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAmr, and Abū Zurʿah narrated from him.” He mentioned neither criticism nor accreditation concerning him. However, Abū Zurʿah narrated only from a trustworthy narrator.

The hadith is authentic, for it has been narrated through several chains from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb with the same wording, but without the account of ʿAttāb ibn Asīd, may Allah be pleased with him, being sent. It was recorded by the compilers of the Sunan, Aḥmad, and al-Ḥākim (2/17), who authenticated it. I have traced its sources in Aḥādīth al-Buyūʿ, al-Mishkāh (2870), and Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl (1293).