one place. Elsewhere, he repeated it and said: “Its narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ, apart from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, who is trustworthy.”

His teacher, al-ʿIrāqī, said: “The hadith is good.” I say: It is found in al-Majmaʿ (5/318), as he attributed it in the other place. I have not seen it anywhere else. He then graded its chain of transmission as good in al-Taysīr.

2184 — “No divorce is binding upon a man with respect to what he does not own; no manumission applies to what he does not own; and no sale is valid for what he does not own.”

Aḥmad (2/189 and 190), al-Nasāʾī (2/225–226)—the last clause only—and al-Ṭaḥāwī in al-Mushkil (1/281), in its entirety, narrated it through the route of Maṭar al-Warrāq, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, in a report attributed to the Prophet.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission, were it not that Maṭar has some weakness in his retention. However, he was corroborated by ʿĀmir al-Aḥwal, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, with the wording: “No vow made by a son of Adam is valid regarding what he does not own; no manumission by a son of Adam applies to what he does not own; no divorce by a son of Adam applies to what he does not own; and no oath by a son of Adam applies to what he does not own.”

Aḥmad (2/190) and Ibn al-Jārūd in al-Muntaqā (743) narrated the clauses concerning divorce and manumission; al-Tirmidhī (1181) narrated it without the final clause and said: “A good, authentic hadith.” Al-Ṭaḥāwī also narrated it (1/281).

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. ʿĀmir—namely, Ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Aḥwal al-Baṣrī—was among the narrators of Muslim. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Truthful, but makes errors.”