- “Whoever has a debt and intends to repay it will have help from Allah, and Allah will provide him with sustenance.”
Al-Ṭabarānī reported it in al-Awsaṭ (2/181/1/7758): Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; my father narrated to us: Saʿd ibn al-Ṣalt narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say it. He said: “No one narrated it from Hishām except Saʿd ibn al-Ṣalt, and no one narrated it from Saʿd except Shādhān.”
I say: By this he means Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, who was known as “Shādhān al-Fārisī, judge of Fārs,” as stated in al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl (Narrator Criticism and Accreditation), in the biographical entry for Saʿd ibn al-Ṣalt. The same appears in Isḥāq’s own entry, where it says (1/1/211): “He wrote to my father and to me, and he was truthful.”
He also included a biographical entry for his shaykh, Saʿd ibn al-Ṣalt, noting his transmission from a number of other reliable narrators besides Hishām ibn ʿUrwah; among those who narrated from him were Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Yaḥyā al-Ḥammānī, and his daughter’s son, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, known as Shādhān al-Fārisī, judge of Fārs. He mentioned neither any criticism nor accreditation concerning him.
Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt (6/378), through Shādhān’s narration from him, and said: “He would occasionally narrate singular reports.”
Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (4/132–133), after attributing it to Aḥmad: “Al-Ṭabarānī’s chain of transmission is continuous, except that it contains Saʿīd ibn al-Ṣalt, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah. I have found only one such person who narrated from the Companions, so he cannot be the one intended. And Allah knows best.”
I say: It is actually Saʿd, and it seems that al-Haythamī’s copy of al-Ṭabarānī read “Saʿīd,”