This report is further supported by what al-Dhahabi likewise related through al-Ajurri, from Abu Dawud, who said: “I heard Qutaybah say: We would not write Ibn Lahi'ah’s hadith except from the books of his nephew or the books of Ibn Wahb, apart from the reports of al-A'raj.”

“Sabwah” means an inclination toward desire; it denotes a single instance of such inclination. Al-Nihayah.

2844 — “A man used to sell wine on a ship, and he would mix the wine with water. He had a monkey, which took the purse and climbed the mast, then began throwing one dinar into the sea and one dinar onto the ship, until it had divided it into two halves.”

Al-Harbi recorded it in al-Gharib (5/155/2): Musa narrated to us: Hammad narrated to us, from Ishaq ibn Abi Talhah, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission.

Ahmad (2/306, 335, and 407), al-Harith in his Musnad (50/2—its supplementary reports), and al-Bayhaqi in Shu'ab al-Iman (4/332/5307) also narrated it through several routes from Hammad ibn Salamah, through this chain.

The hadith has two other chains from Abu Hurayrah. One of them is narrated by Amir ibn Sayyar: Sulayman ibn Arqam narrated to us, from al-Hasan, from Abu Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet: “Do not mix milk for sale...” He then mentioned the hadith concerning an animal whose milk had been left to accumulate, and then cited the hadith under the present heading. Ibn Adi recorded it in al-Kamil (3/253), and al-Bayhaqi recorded it through him (5308), and said: