Al-Ḥākim also recorded it, including the account, through the route of ʿAṭāʾ al-Khurāsānī, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb. Ibn Ḥibbān likewise recorded it (6108), but omitted “ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father.” It has corroborating reports: Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated it from ʿAṭāʾ, from Ṣafwān ibn Yaʿlā, from his father, who said—and then narrated it in full. Al-Bayhaqī recorded it (5/313). The narrators in its chain of transmission are trustworthy, were it not for Ibn Isḥāq’s ambiguous mode of transmission.

He then recorded it through the route of Miqdām ibn Dāwūd: Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, attributing it to the Prophet, with the same wording. He said: “Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Aylī alone narrated it, and it is rejected with this chain of transmission.”

I say: What precedes it is sufficient without it.

Explanation of unfamiliar expressions in the hadith:

“Sale and loan”: Ibn al-Athīr said: “It is like saying: ‘I sell you this slave for a thousand on condition that you make me an advance payment for some merchandise, or that you lend me a thousand.’ He lends only in order to receive preferential treatment in the price. Thus, it falls under the category of uncertainty; moreover, every loan that brings a benefit is ribā (prohibited interest or usurious gain).”

“Two conditions in a sale”: Ibn al-Athīr said: “It is like saying: ‘I sell you this garment for one dinar if paid in cash, and for two dinars if payment is deferred.’ This is like two sales in a single sale.”

I say: The prohibition of two sales in a single sale has been authentically reported in the hadiths of Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar. These have been documented in the sources referred to above. This is also a variant narration of the hadith under discussion recorded by al-Bayhaqī. The narrators concurred in explaining “two sales in a single sale” in a manner like the preceding explanation of “two conditions in a sale.” Among them were Simāk ibn Ḥarb, in the hadith of Ibn Masʿūd recorded by Aḥmad, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ, in the hadith of Abū Hurayrah recorded by al-Bayhaqī. Al-Nasāʾī gave the chapter heading for the hadith under discussion as follows: