2493 - Ya‘qūb ibn Ibrāhīm informed us, saying: Yaḥyā informed us, from ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ja‘far, who said: Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī ‘Arīb narrated to me, from Kathīr ibn Murrah al-Ḥaḍramī, from ‘Awf ibn Mālik, who said:

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, went out with a staff in his hand, and a man had hung up a cluster of poor-quality dates. He began poking at that cluster with his staff, saying: "If the owner of this charity had wished, he could have given something better than this in charity. Indeed, the owner of this charity will eat poor-quality dates on the Day of Resurrection."

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‘Abd al-Jalīl ibn Ḥumayd was followed on this chain of transmission by Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥafṣah, as found in the "Ṣaḥīḥ" of Ibn Khuzaymah (2311).

However, Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn differed from them both, as found in the "Sunan" of Abū Dāwūd (1607), as did Sulaymān ibn Kathīr in what Abū Dāwūd mentioned immediately following the hadith — for they both narrated it from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl ibn Ḥunayf, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade the ju‘rūr [variety of dates]... But Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn and Sulaymān ibn Kathīr are both weak in [their narrations from] al-Zuhrī.

Al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned — as al-Ḥāfiẓ transmitted from him in "Ittihāf al-Mahrah" 6/89 — that the hadith of ‘Abd al-Jalīl ibn Ḥumayd is more correct.

His saying "al-ju‘rūr" — with a ḍammah on the jīm and a sukūn on the ‘ayn — is an inferior type of dates that produces small, worthless fresh dates.

"And the lūn ḥubayq" — with a ḍammah on the ḥā’ — is an inferior type of dates attributed to a man by that name. This was stated by al-Sindī.

(1) In (H) and the margin of (K): "qinw" — a variant reading. Al-qanā and al-qinw both mean the date cluster.

(2) Its chain of transmission is ḥasan. Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī ‘Arīb — a number of narrators transmitted from him, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" 6/457. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy, except ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ja‘far, who falls slightly below the level of trustworthiness. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar strengthened its chain in "Fatḥ al-Bārī" 1/516. Yaḥyā is Ibn Sa‘īd al-Qaṭṭān. It appears in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (2284).

Aḥmad (23998), Abū Dāwūd (1608), and Ibn Mājah (1821) also transmitted it via the route of Yaḥyā ibn Sa‘īd al-Qaṭṭān, with this chain.

Aḥmad (23976) and Ibn Ḥibbān (6774) also transmitted it via two routes from ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ja‘far, with it, and in it there is an addition: Then he turned to us and said: "By Allah, O people of Medina, you will surely leave it to the ‘awāfī. Do you know what the ‘awāfī are?" We said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "The birds and the beasts." (The wording of Ibn Ḥibbān.) =