He then also recorded it (3/85); Muslim and others likewise recorded it, through Abu Nadrah from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri alone, with the wording:

“Eat, feed others, and store some.”

There are many hadiths to this effect. I have documented some of them in Sahih Abi Dawud (2503) and al-Irwa’ (4/369–370), and some have preceded in al-Sahihah (2969). For this reason, I saw fit to include the hadith under discussion in al-Sahihah as well. *

3564—“Whoever grants something as an ʿumra (a lifetime gift), it belongs to its recipient, during his life and after his death. Do not make ruqba (survivorship-contingent) grants; whoever makes such a grant of something, it is subject to inheritance.”

Abu Dawud recorded it (3559), as did al-Nasa’i (2/135), Ibn Majah (2381), in abridged form, Ibn Hibban (1149 and 1150), Ahmad (5/182, 186, and 189), and al-Tabarani in al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir (5/179–182), through several routes from Hujr al-Madari, from Zayd ibn Thabit, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, said: ... and he mentioned it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. It also has a corroborating report in the hadith of Jabir recorded by Muslim and others, which I have documented in al-Irwa’ (1607–1609).

Benefit: Abu Dawud narrated (3560), with a good chain of transmission, from Mujahid, who said:

“An ʿumra is for a man to say to another man: ‘It is yours as long as you live.’ A ruqba is for a person to say: ‘It belongs to whichever of us outlives the other.’”

Abu al-Hasan al-Sindi said in his marginal notes on al-Nasa’i:

“Ruqba, following the morphological pattern of ḥublā (pregnant woman), takes the form of someone saying: ‘I have made this house for you,”