“It was narrated by Ahmad, and its narrators are trustworthy.”

Al-Mundhirī said (3/80): “Ahmad narrated it with a good chain of transmission.”

In al-Jāmiʿ, it states: “It was narrated by Ahmad and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr,” after which he marked it as good.

After citing the statements of al-Mundhirī and al-Haythamī, its commentator al-Manāwī said:

“From this it is known that the author’s marking it as good is an understatement; it would have been more appropriate to mark it as authentic.”

I say: Al-Bukhārī also recorded it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (30): Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā narrated to us; he said: Baqiyyah informed us; he said: Buḥayr ibn Saʿd informed me of the same report.

453 — “Why did you not teach him when he was ignorant, or feed him when he was starving or hungry?”

It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (1/408–409), al-Nasāʾī (2/209), Ibn Mājah (2/45), al-Ḥākim (4/133), and Aḥmad (4/166–167), through Abū Bishr Jaʿfar ibn Abī Iyās, from ʿAbbād ibn Shuraḥbīl, who said:

“A year of famine befell me, so I entered one of the walled orchards of Medina. I rubbed some ears of grain, ate from them, and carried some in my garment. Its owner came, struck me, and took my garment. So I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He said to him”—then he mentioned the hadith—“and ordered him to return my garment to me, and gave me a wasq, or half a wasq, of food.”

Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and it is as they said; rather, it meets the criteria of the two Shaykhs.