He said to them: "Who are the people of Dhu al-Marwah?" They replied: "The Banu Rifāʿah of Juhaynah." He said: "I have granted it as a land concession (iqṭāʿ) to the Banu Rifāʿah." So they divided it among themselves: some of them sold it, and some of them kept it and worked it. Then I asked his father ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz about this ḥadīth, and he narrated part of it to me but did not narrate all of it to me. (1)

3069 — Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī narrated to us, Yaḥyā — meaning Ibn Ādam — narrated to us, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, granted to al-Zubayr a land concession of palm trees (nakhl). (2)

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(1) Its chain is ḥasan (good) on account of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Rabīʿ — and he is Ibn Sabrah ibn Maʿbad al-Juhanī — for he is ṣadūq (truthful) of good ḥadīth. His grandfather Sabrah here is Sabrah ibn Maʿbad, the Companion, as is understood from the practice of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī in his "Tahdhīb," where he said: "And from Sabrah ibn Maʿbad al-Juhanī."

Al-Bayhaqī also transmitted it in 6/149 via the path of Abū Dāwūd, with this chain.

His saying: "Dawmah" — with ḍammah on the dāl and with fatḥah — is the singular of dūm, which are large trees, and it is said: it is the tree of the muql (desert palm).

"Al-Raḥbah" means: the spacious land.

"Dhu al-Marwah": Yāqūt said: a village in Wādī al-Qurā, and Wādī al-Qurā is a valley between Medina and Syria, located between Taymāʾ and Khaybar, containing many villages, and it is after it that Wādī al-Qurā is named.

(2) Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ (authentic). Abū Usāmah Ḥammād ibn Usāmah followed Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh in transmitting it, as will come later.

Ibn Saʿd transmitted it in "al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā" 3/103, al-Tirmidhī in his "ʿIlal al-Kabīr" 1/574, and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" 24/(215) via the path of Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, with this chain. Al-Tirmidhī asked al-Bukhārī about this ḥadīth, and al-Bukhārī said: "The correct version is from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him" — as a mursal (omitting the Companion). Likewise, al-Dāraquṭnī said in "al-ʿIlal" 5/folio 194 regarding the mursal version: "It is the correct one." We say: Thus they both said, even though Abū Usāmah Ḥammād ibn Usāmah narrated it likewise as connected (mawṣūl).