in al-Tawḥīd (p. 94), through Hishām ibn Saʿd, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father, that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections, apart from Hishām ibn Saʿd, who was truthful but made errors. Ibn Taymiyyah likewise graded it good at the beginning of his treatise on divine decree. The hadith is also found, in abridged form, in the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections and elsewhere, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah.
His saying, “Thus Adam prevailed over Moses,” means: he overcame him by proof. Know that the scholars have differed over how this is to be understood. The best explanation I have found is that given by Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah Most High have mercy on him: Moses blamed him for what he did because of the calamity that befell Adam’s descendants as a result of his eating from the tree, not because the sin was a violation of Allah’s right. For Adam had repented of the sin, and Moses, peace be upon him, knew that after repentance and forgiveness, no blame remains for the sin. This is why he said, “What made you expel us and yourself from Paradise?” He did not say, “Why did you disobey the command?” When calamities befall people, whether through the actions of others or otherwise, they are commanded to submit to the divine decree and acknowledge Allah’s lordship . . . Consult his discussion of this matter, for it is extremely important, in the aforementioned treatise and in Kitāb al-Qadar from al-Fatāwā, vol. 8, as well as the discussions of others in Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (1/123–124).
1703 — “This dinar and dirham destroyed those before you, and they will destroy you.”
It was reported by Abū Muḥammad ibn Shaybān al-ʿAdl in al-Fawāʾid (2/222/1), and by al-Mukhalliṣ in al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh (8/5/1), from ʿAbdullāh ibn Hāshim al-Ṭūsī, who said: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us, from Sufyān, who said: Sulaymān narrated to me, from Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Mūsā—whom he believed to have narrated it from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—and he then cited it.
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy and meet Muslim’s conditions. Shuʿbah corroborated him, narrating it from al-Aʿmash with the same chain.