ʿAbd al-Warith related to us: Sulayman—that is, Ibn al-Mughirah—informed us from Humayd—that is, Ibn Hilal—who said: There was a man of al-Tafawah whose route passed by us. He came to the settlement and told its people: “I arrived in Medina with one of our caravans, and we sold our merchandise (the original reads: ‘our sale’) (1). Then I said: ‘I shall go to this man and bring back news of him.’” He said: “I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he was showing me a house.” He then related it.

I say: This chain of transmission is authentic. All its narrators are trustworthy narrators cited by the two Shaykhs, apart from the man of al-Tafawah, who is unnamed. This does not detract from it, since he was a Companion, and all the Companions are upright. Al-Haythami said (5/277): “Ahmad narrated it, and its narrators are those of the Sahih.”

His statement, “her small weaving implement,” refers to the spindle with which one spins and weaves, as stated in al-Nihayah.

2936 — “[O Abu Hurayrah,] take them”—that is, the dates over which he, peace and blessings be upon him, had invoked blessing—“and gather them in this provision bag, or in this bag. Whenever you wish to take something from it, put your hand into it and take it; do not scatter them out.”

Al-Tirmidhi (3838), Ibn Hibban (2150), al-Bayhaqi in al-Dalaʾil (6/109), and Ahmad (2/352) narrated it through several chains from Hammad ibn Zayd, who said: Al-Muhajir related to us from Abu al-ʿAliyah al-Riyahi, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: I brought some dates to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: “O Messenger of Allah, invoke Allah’s blessing upon them.” So he gathered them together—in another narration: “He arranged them before him”—then invoked blessing upon them for me and said to me: “He then mentioned the hadith.” I carried such-and-such an amount of these dates—fifty wasqs in one chain—in the cause of Allah. We ate from them and fed others from them, and it remained fastened at my waist