3521 — Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd narrated to us, ʿAbd Allāh — meaning Ibn Wahb — narrated to us, Yūnus informed me, from Ibn Shihāb, who said: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām informed me that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace — and he mentioned the meaning of the ḥadīth of Mālik — adding: "And if he had already paid part of its price, then he is like the other creditors."

Abū Bakr said: And the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ruled that whoever dies while in his possession is a man's specific merchandise, and he has not paid anything of its price, then the owner of the merchandise is like the other creditors regarding it.

3522 — Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ṭāʾī narrated to us, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Khabāʾirī narrated to us, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us — from al-Zubaydī, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
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And it was also narrated by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār" (4606) via ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr ibn al-Ḥakam al-Naysābūrī, from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Mālik, from Ibn Shihāb, from Abū Bakr, from Abū Hurayrah — connecting it [to the Prophet]. And he quoted Ibn Khuzaymah's statement about ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr: "He was among the scholars of Naysābūr and their trustworthy narrators." We say: In any case, the narrators of the Muwaṭṭaʾ narrated it as disconnected (mursal), and there is no doubt that their narration is more firmly established, even though there is disagreement about ʿAbd al-Razzāq regarding whether he connected it or left it disconnected.

And look at what precedes it and what follows it.

Al-Khaṭṭābī said: Mālik adhered to the entirety of what is in this ḥadīth, and he said: If he had received something of the price of the merchandise, then he is like the other creditors. Al-Shāfiʿī said: There is no difference between his having received something or not having received it, in that when he finds his exact property, he has greater right to it. And Mālik said: If the buyer dies and the seller finds his exact merchandise, he does not have greater right to it. According to al-Shāfiʿī: If the buyer dies insolvent and the merchandise is still extant, its owner may reclaim it.

(1) Its narrators are trustworthy, like the preceding one. Yūnus: he is Ibn Yazīd al-Aylī, and Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd: he is al-Mahrī al-Miṣrī.

The discussion of its chain of transmission has already preceded at the ḥadīth before this one.

And look at what has preceded under number (3519).