(Note): Al-Ḥākim made no comment on this hadith of Budayl; indeed, he followed it with the statement:

“This hadith is not among the contents of this book!”

I say: I did not understand what he meant by this, and al-Dhahabī did not mention it in his Talkhīṣ. Allah knows best.

I then found a corroborating narration for ʿĪsā ibn Masʿūd al-Zuraqī from his brother, Yūsuf ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥakam al-Zuraqī. Al-Bayhaqī transmitted it in his Sunan (4/298), and al-Mizzī transmitted it in Yūsuf’s biography in al-Tahdhīb (32/461); both through two chains from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, from Yūsuf ibn Masʿūd, with the same narration.

Al-Nasāʾī cited it without a complete chain in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (2/168/2885), using a definitive wording. He said:

“Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd also narrated this hadith from Yūsuf ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥakam …”

Al-Mizzī mentioned that al-Nasāʾī transmitted it with a complete chain through ʿĪsā ibn Ḥammād, from Layth ibn Saʿd, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī.

But I did not find it thus transmitted with a complete chain in al-Nasāʾī. Allah knows best.

Ibn Ḥibbān also declared this Yūsuf trustworthy (5/551). *

3574—“No exchange of two sāʿs of dates for one sāʿ, nor two sāʿs of wheat for one sāʿ, nor one dirham for two dirhams.”

This is a hadith of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, may Allah be pleased with him, and it has two chains from him:

The first: from Abū Salamah, from him, who said:

During the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, we used to be allotted mixed dates—that is, an assortment of dates—so we would