“One day, I entered with ‘Urwah ibn al-Zubayr upon ‘A’ishah, and she said: ‘If only you two had seen the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, during one of his illnesses! I had six dinars in my possession for him—or seven. The Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, instructed me to distribute them, but his illness preoccupied me until Allah restored him to health. Then he asked me about them and said: “What became of the six?”—or the seven. I replied: “No, by Allah, your illness had preoccupied me.” She said: So he called for them, placed them in his palm, and then said the hadith quoted above, but without the words: “Spend them.”’
It was recorded by Ibn Hibban (2141) and Ahmad (6/104). I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic in light of what preceded. Its narrators are reliable, and—with the exception of Musa ibn Jubayr, the Medinan Ansari—are among the narrators of the two Sahih compilations. A number of reliable narrators reported from him, and Ibn Hibban included him in his work on reliable narrators (7/451), saying: “He would make errors and contradict others.”
The third: from Ya‘qub ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, who said: My father related to me from his father—or from ‘Ubayd Allah ibn ‘Abd Allah; Ya‘qub was uncertain—from ‘A’ishah, who said: Eight dirhams came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, after nightfall. He continued standing and sitting, unable to sleep, until he heard a beggar asking. He then left my presence, and no sooner had he returned than I heard him snoring. When morning came, I said: “O Messenger of Allah, I saw you early in the night standing and sitting, unable to sleep, until you left me; then, no sooner had you returned than I heard you snoring.” He replied: “Yes. Eight dirhams came to the Messenger of Allah after nightfall, so what would the Messenger of Allah think …”—and he then cited the hadith, but without the additional wording.
It was recorded by Ibn Sa‘d. Its narrators are reliable, except for ‘Abd al-Rahman’s father, whom Ibn Abi Hatim mentioned in a biographical notice (3/2/300), saying: