I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission meeting Muslim’s criteria. Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥaḍarī was named ʿUmar ibn Saʿd. Abū Nuʿaym also transmitted it from Sufyān through the same chain, except that he did not mention sitting cross-legged. Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (2/249/1885).

Muslim and others also recorded it through other routes from Simāk, with various wordings and additional details, but without mention of sitting cross-legged. It has been referenced in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (1171) and in this Silsilah (434).

The report of Ḥanẓalah ibn Ḥudhaym corroborates the sitting cross-legged: “I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and saw him sitting cross-legged.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (1179), and through him al-Mizzī in al-Tahdhīb (7/435), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (4/15/3498), by way of Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, who said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Qurashī narrated to us; Dhiyāl ibn ʿUbayd ibn Ḥanẓalah narrated to us; my grandfather Ḥanẓalah ibn Ḥudhaym narrated to me. I say: This chain is intrinsically good, at the very least, in light of what has preceded concerning the status of this Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān in the hadith before it; the remainder of its narrators are trustworthy.

2955 — “No, no, no. The charity is five; otherwise, ten; otherwise, fifteen; otherwise, twenty; otherwise, twenty-five; otherwise, thirty; otherwise, thirty-five; and if it is plentiful, then forty.”

Aḥmad recorded it (5/67–68): Abū Saʿīd, the freedman of Banū Hāshim, narrated to us: Dhiyāl ibn