we would exchange two sāʿs for one sāʿ. News of this reached the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and he said: … then he cited it.

It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (2080), Muslim (5/48)—the wording being his—al-Nasāʾī (2/220–221), al-Bayhaqī (5/291), and Aḥmad (3/49 and 50–51), through Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, through this chain.

Al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān corroborated him; this is found in al-Ṭaḥāwī’s al-Sharḥ (The Commentary) (2/234).

Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and others also narrated something similar through Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from both Abū Saʿīd and Abū Hurayrah. Its documentation appears in al-Irwāʾ (1340).

The other chain is from ʿUqbah ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir, from Abū Saʿīd, with the same narration.

Ibn Ḥibbān narrated it (5024, al-Muʾassasah edition) through al-Walīd, from al-Awzāʿī, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from him.

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic, were it not for al-Walīd—namely, Ibn Muslim—using an unexplicit “from” in its chain of transmission.

However, he was corroborated: Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah narrated it, saying: Al-Awzāʿī narrated it to us, in abbreviated form.

Al-Nasāʾī narrated it.

Muʿāwiyah ibn Salām narrated: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr informed me, saying: I heard ʿUqbah ibn ʿAbd al-Ghāfir say: I heard Abū Saʿīd say:

Bilāl brought Barni dates, and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, asked him:

“Where did these come from?”

Bilāl replied: “We had some inferior dates, so I exchanged two sāʿs of them for one sāʿ, to provide food for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.” At that, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: