As for the ḥadith, “Whoever breaks the fast (namely while travelling) is availing himself of a concession, whereas whoever fasts—fasting is better,” it is an anomalous (shādh) report that is not authentic. The correct view is that it is only mawqūf, stopping at Anas, as I clarified in Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah, no. 936. Had it been authentic, it would have constituted an explicit, incontestable proof in the very point under dispute—but alas, it is not. Therefore one must resort to ijtihād (independent legal reasoning) and inference, which actually lead to the opposite of the sweeping statement found in this mawqūf narration—namely, to the detailed ruling I have already set out. Allah is the One who grants success.

195 – “Allah despises every jaʿaẓarī jawwaẓ—loud and quarrelsome in the marketplaces—who is like a corpse at night and a donkey by day: versed in worldly matters yet ignorant of the Hereafter.”

Ibn Ḥibbān recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1957, Mawārid) with the chain: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan told us; Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said—and he mentioned the ḥadith.

I say: The isnād is sound; every narrator is trustworthy (thiqa) and known among the narrators cited by Muslim, except Ibn Ḥibbān’s shaykh, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan—Abū Ḥāmid al-Nīsābūrī, known as Ibn al-Sharqī—about whom al-Khaṭīb said (4/426-427): “He was trustworthy, reliable, precise, and a ḥāfiẓ.” Abū Bakr al-Qaṭṭān corroborated the report, narrating the same chain via Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, and al-Bayhaqī also transmitted it (10/194).

• al-jaʿaẓarī (rude, harsh, arrogant)
• al-jawwaẓ (greedy hoarder who withholds)
• al-sakhkhāb—spelled like ṣakhkhāb—(one who shouts and argues much). A variant wording cited by Ibn al-Athīr reads: “logs by night, clamorous by day,” meaning that when night falls they drop asleep like motionless logs, but when morning comes they brawl over worldly gain out of greed and avarice.
• jīfah (“a corpse”): he is like a corpse because he toils for his worldly life all day long like a donkey, then sleeps through the night as motionless as a corpse.