“The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent al-Walid ibn ‘Uqbah ibn Abi Mu‘ayt to us to collect the zakat due on our property ...” A similar report, which includes:

“This was after the Battle of al-Muraysi‘,” and also:

“He accepted from them their obligatory dues ... They returned to their families, and he sent someone to them to collect the remainder of their charitable payments.”

It was recorded by Ibn Abi ‘Asim in al-Afrad (4/309–310), and by al-Tabarani in al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir (18/6–7).

I say: This is a good chain of transmission, as will be explained in another hadith, no. 3232. Al-Haythami said in Majma‘ al-Zawa’id (7/110):

“Al-Tabarani transmitted it through two chains. One of them contains Ya‘qub ibn Humayd ibn Kasib, whom Ibn Hibban declared trustworthy, while the majority declared him weak; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

I say: The sounder view concerning this Ya‘qub is that his hadith are good, as I have explained there. As for the other chain to which al-Haythami referred, it contains Ya‘qub ibn Muhammad al-Zuhri, who is weak. Moreover, its text is exceedingly abbreviated and contains an unusual addition. Its wording, under no. 5, is:

From his father, that he was among the delegation of Banu al-Mustaliq that came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding the affair of al-Walid ibn ‘Uqbah. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Return; you are neither detained nor confined.”

Third: ‘Isa ibn Dinar said: My father narrated to us that he heard al-Harith ibn Dirar al-Khuza‘i say:

“I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he called me to Islam. I embraced it and professed it,”