“Oh! That is ribā itself. Do not do so. Rather, if you wish to buy dates, sell them in a separate transaction, then buy with the proceeds whatever you wish.”

It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (2312), Muslim, Ibn Ḥibbān (5022), and Aḥmad (3/62), who added at its end: “whatever you wish.” Its chain of transmission is good.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr also narrated it from Abū Salamah, from Abū Saʿīd, as a Prophetic hadith, with the wording:

“A sāʿ of dates may not be exchanged for two sāʿs, nor one dirham for two dirhams. A dirham is for a dirham, and a dīnār for a dīnār, with no difference between them except according to weight.”

It was narrated by Ibn Mājah (2256) and Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Muṣannaf (7/102/2529). I say: Its chain of transmission is good.

3575—(“It was only Gabriel. I saw him in the form in which he was created only on these two occasions: I saw him descending from heaven, his immense form filling the space between heaven and earth.”)

It was narrated by Muslim (1/110)—the wording being his—Aḥmad (6/236 and 241), al-Ṭayālisī (1408), al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (11532), al-Tirmidhī (3068), Isḥāq ibn Rāhūyah in his Musnad (884), Ibn Khuzaymah in al-Tawḥīd (Oneness) (pp. 145–146), and Abū al-Shaykh al-Iṣfahānī in al-ʿAẓamah (485), through Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from al-Shaʿbī, from Masrūq, who said:

I was reclining with Aisha when she said: “O Abū Aisha, there are three matters: whoever asserts any one of them