17 - Chapter: A Man Who Dies with Debts and Has Enough to Pay Them—His Creditors Are Asked for Respite, and Leniency Is Shown to the Heir

2884 - Muhammad ibn al-‘Ala’ narrated to us that Shu‘ayb ibn Ishaq narrated to them, from Hisham ibn ‘Urwah, from Wahb ibn Kaysan, from Jabir ibn ‘Abd Allah, that he informed him: his father died owing thirty wasqs to a man from the Jews. Jabir asked him for respite, but he refused. Jabir then spoke to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, asking him to intercede on his behalf with him. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came and spoke to the Jew, asking him to accept the fruit of his palm trees in place of what was owed to him, but he refused. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, spoke to him again to grant him respite, but he refused—and he narrated the rest of the hadith.

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(1) Its chain of transmission is sound.
Al-Bukhari (2396) and Ibn Majah (2434) also recorded it in full from the path of Hisham ibn ‘Urwah, from him.
Al-Bukhari (2709) and al-Nasa’i (3640) also recorded it in similar form, lengthened, from the path of ‘Ubayd Allah ibn ‘Umar, from Wahb ibn Kaysan, from him—without mentioning the request for respite.
Al-Bukhari (2127), (2395), (2405), and (2601), and al-Nasa’i (3638) and (3639) also recorded it in similar form from various paths from Jabir ibn ‘Abd Allah. None of these narrations mention the request for respite, except in the second narration of al-Nasa’i, which includes: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to the Jew, "Would you take half of it this year and defer the other half?" But the Jew refused. It is also in the Musnad of Ahmad (14359) and (15005), and in Sahih Ibn Hibban (6536) and (7139).
The wasq is sixty sa‘s, equivalent in modern measures to approximately one hundred thirty and a half kilograms (130.5).
His statement, "Jabir asked him for respite," means he requested a deferment from him and sought a delay—that is, he asked for more time.