“that some men of the Anṣār asked the Messenger of Allah, and he gave them. Then they asked him again, and he gave them; then they asked him again, and he gave them, until what he had was exhausted. He then said: ‘Whatever good I have, I shall never withhold from you. Whoever seeks to remain chaste, Allah will grant him chastity; whoever seeks self-sufficiency, Allah will make him self-sufficient; and whoever strives to be patient, Allah will grant him patience. No one has been given a gift better or more abundant than patience.’”

Al-Bukhārī transmitted it (3/261—Fatḥ), as did Muslim (3/102), al-Dārimī (1/378), and Aḥmad (3/93).

Aḥmad also transmitted (3/9), through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Rijāl, from ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Khudrī, from his father, who said: “My mother sent me to the Messenger of Allah to ask him, so I came to him …” He then mentioned it with wording similar to that of the hadith under discussion, except that he said: “And whoever possesses the value of an uqiyyah has asked importunately.”

This is a sound chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of Muslim, apart from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Rijāl, who is truthful but may sometimes err, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Al-Nasāʾī also transmitted it (1/363) through his route.

Al-Ṭaḥāwī transmitted, through ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from a man of Banū Asad, who said: “I came to the Prophet and heard him say to a man who was asking him: ‘Whoever among you asks while possessing an uqiyyah, or its equivalent, has asked importunately.’ An uqiyyah at that time was forty dirhams.”

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic. It also has a supporting narration, in abridged form, from the hadith of Ibn ʿAmr and others; it has already preceded under no. (1719).