Maḥbūb ibn Mūsā said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt, from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

A man came to the Messenger of Allah, asking him for something. The Messenger of Allah—may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him—borrowed half a wasq for him and gave it to him. Then the man came demanding payment, so he gave him a wasq and said: … then he cited the words already mentioned.

Al-Būshanjī—who was a trustworthy hadith master—was corroborated by a fuller version. Al-Bazzār said in his Musnad (2/103–104/1306, Kashf al-Astār): Muḥammad ibn Abī Ghālib narrated to us: Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Farrāʾ narrated to us with this chain, with the following wording:

A man came to the Prophet—may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him—demanding payment from him, for he had borrowed half a wasq from him. He gave him a wasq and said:

“Half a wasq is repayment to you, and half a wasq is a gift from me to you.”

Then the owner of the wasq came demanding payment, and the Messenger of Allah—may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him—gave him two wasqs and said:

“One wasq is for you, and one wasq is from me.”

Al-Bazzār said:

“We know of no one who narrated it from Ḥabīb in this manner except Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt, and no one who narrated it from him except Ibn al-Mubārak.”

I say: All of them are trustworthy narrators used by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, apart from Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt, who is among Muslim’s narrators. There is some minor criticism of him, to which al-Ḥāfiẓ alluded in al-Taqrīb when he said:

“Truthful and ascetic, though he sometimes erred.”

For this reason, al-Mundhirī said in al-Targhīb (3/20/14):

“Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its chain is good, if Allah wills.”