“Will you not go and ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, ...?” He then related the hadith with similar wording, except that he said: “The equivalent of five awqiyyahs.” This chain of transmission is also authentic, despite a slight weakness in Abd al-Hamid. Perhaps he erred in saying, “the equivalent of five awqiyyahs.”

It appears that this man from Muzaynah was Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, for his son, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Sa‘id, said on his father’s authority: “My mother sent me to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, to ask him [for something], so I came to him ...” He then related the hadith with similar wording. It includes: “I said, ‘My she-camel, al-Yaqutah, is better than an awqiyyah,’ so I returned without asking him.” Ahmad recorded it (3/9).

Ahmad also recorded it (3/7), as did Abu Dawud (1628), al-Nasa’i, Ibn Hibban (846), and Ibn Abi Hatim in his Exegesis (1/95/2), all through the route of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi al-Rijal, who narrated from Umarah ibn Ghaziyyah, from Abd al-Rahman, with the same report. This is a good chain of transmission.

In one version, Abu Dawud added: “In the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, an awqiyyah was forty dirhams.” There is weakness in its chain, but it is corroborated by the hadith of Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Whoever asks while possessing forty dirhams is an importunate beggar.” Al-Nasa’i recorded it.

I say: Its chain of transmission is good. As for what al-Tabarani recorded in al-Kabir (no. 1630)—and Abu Nu‘aym from him in al-Hilyah (1/161)—through Muhammad ibn Sirin, who said: