The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said”—then he mentioned it.

423 — “Render the trust to the one who entrusted you, and do not betray the one who betrayed you.”

Abu Dawud (2/108), al-Tirmidhi (1/238), al-Darimi (2/264), al-Khara’iti in Noble Character (30), al-Daraqutni (303), and al-Hakim (2/46) narrated it through Talq ibn Ghannam, from Sharik and Qays, from Abu Husayn, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, in a hadith attributed to the Prophet.

Al-Tirmidhi said: “A good, singular hadith.”

Al-Hakim said: “Sharik’s hadith from Abu Husayn is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

I say: This is open to question, for Muslim only narrated Sharik’s reports as supporting evidence, as al-Dhahabi himself stated in al-Mizan; moreover, Sharik had poor retention. The same is true of his corroborator Qays, who is Ibn al-Rabiʿ. Yet the hadith is good because they corroborate one another, and it is authentic on account of other supporting routes.

Abu Dawud also narrated it through Yusuf ibn Mahak al-Makki, who said: “I used to keep the maintenance accounts for certain orphans whose guardian was so-and-so. They overcharged him by one thousand dirhams, which he paid to them. Then I recovered for them from their property twice that amount. I said, ‘Take the thousand that they took from you.’ He replied, ‘No. My father told me that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say’”—then he mentioned it.

Its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators, except for the son of its Companion, who is unnamed.

Ahmad (3/414) narrated it with similar wording. Al-Daraqutni narrated only the portion attributed to the Prophet, reporting it from a man of Quraysh, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say”—then he mentioned it.