3950—“Indeed, the most grievous form of ribā is a man’s assault upon his brother’s honour.”

Al-Bazzār (3569), Ibn ʿAdī (2/311), al-Bayhaqī in al-Shuʿab (2/309/1), and Abū Bakr al-Shīrāzī in Seven Sessions from al-Amālī (2/7) narrated it through al-Nuʿmān ibn Rāshid, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Abū Hurayrah, in a hadith attributed to the Prophet. He said, quoting Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ: “No one besides al-Nuʿmān narrated it as being from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Abū Hurayrah.” Ibn ʿAdī said: “In most of what he narrates, the reliable narrators do not corroborate him.”

That is what he said. Al-Nuʿmān’s status is disputed, and Muslim included his narrations. The fairest assessment made of him is al-Nasāʾī’s statement: “Truthful, but he has some weakness.” Accordingly, it says in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, poor in memory.”

Al-Bazzār said after it: “We know of no one who narrated it from al-Zuhrī except al-Nuʿmān. A number of eminent narrators related from him, including Ibn Jurayj, Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and Wuhayb ibn Khālid.”

I say: It has also been narrated from Abū Hurayrah through other routes:

The first is through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from his father—or, in one narration, from his grandfather—from him.

It was narrated by al-Bazzār (3570) and Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in al-Ṣamt (no. 173),