Ahmad transmitted it (1/398, 406).

Mujālid was Ibn Saʿīd. Al-Taqrīb says of him: “He is not strong, and his condition deteriorated toward the end of his life.”

I say: What is well known from al-Shaʿbī is that he narrated it from Jābir ibn Samurah. Ibn ʿAwn and Ibn Abī Hind narrated it from him in this manner, as mentioned shortly before. Mujālid likewise narrated it in this manner in Ahmad (5/88, 96). I therefore fear that this narration may be one of his errors. And Allah knows best.

Then I found the hadith in al-Mustadrak (4/501), where he said: “I cannot be lenient in this book regarding narration from Mujālid and his like.” That is what he said.

377 — “O people, ransom yourselves from Allah with the wealth Allah has given you. If one of you is too miserly to give his wealth to people, then let him begin with himself and give charity to himself: let him eat and clothe himself from what Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has provided him.”

Al-Kharāʾiṭī transmitted it in Makārim al-Akhlāq, with the following chain of transmission (p. 54): Ḥammād ibn al-Ḥasan al-Warrāq narrated to us; Ḥibbān ibn Hilāl narrated to us; Sulaym ibn Ḥayyān narrated to us; Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl narrated to us, from Abū Qatādah, attributed to the Prophet.

This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators relied upon by Muslim, apart from Sulaym ibn Ḥayyān, who is nevertheless trustworthy, as stated in al-Taqrīb.

I have also found a supporting report from the hadith of Anas, cited in al-Muntakhab (2/519), where it says: “Al-Bayhaqī, al-Daylamī, and Ibn al-Najjār narrated it. Ibn Ḥajar said in”