It is worth mentioning that I regarded this authentic hadith as a supporting report for the hadith under the heading, despite the apparent difference between their wordings. This is because it is well known among the scholars that a barīd is ordinarily twelve miles. Perhaps it was for this reason that al-Ḥāfiẓ passed over the hadith of ʿAdī ibn Zayd in al-Fatḥ (4/85), despite the unknown status of a narrator in its chain of transmission.
As for the addition at its end, “No one is to beat its trees …,” it has supporting reports from the hadith of Jābir and others, which I have cited in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (no. 1777). *
3235—“Be fair in your commercial dealings with the Bedouin.”
Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (4/35/3559 and 5/307/5294), through Abū al-Haytham Khalaf ibn al-Haytham al-Nahshalī al-Qaṣṣāb, who said: Ghassān ibn al-Agharr al-Nahshalī narrated to us: My uncle Ziyād ibn al-Ḥuṣayn narrated to us, from his father, Ḥuṣayn ibn Qays:
He brought food to Medina and met the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who asked, “What are you carrying, O Bedouin?”
He replied, “Wheat.”
He asked, “What did you intend to do with it—or what do you intend to do with it?”
He replied, “I intended to sell it.” So he stroked my head and said: … Then he mentioned it.
I say: The narrators in this chain of transmission are reliable, apart from this Khalaf, for whom I could find no biographical notice. However, he was corroborated by:
- Al-Ṣalt ibn Muḥammad, who said: Ghassān ibn al-Agharr narrated to us through the same chain, in abbreviated form. Al-Nasāʾī narrated it (2/277).