54 - Chapter on the Explanation of That

2535 - ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī and Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā informed us, both saying: Yaḥyā narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Saʿīd—

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There is no harm in him, as stated in the Taqrīb of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar, and the rest of his narrators are trustworthy. Bakr is Ibn Muḍar, and it is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (2325).

Ibn Ḥibbān also transmitted it (4243) from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Junayd, from Qutaybah, with this chain of transmission.

Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Makhzūmī also narrated it—as in al-Sunan al-Kubrā of the author (9166)—from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, with it, but without his statement: "The best charity is that which is given when one is self-sufficient," and with an addition in it: Zayd said: Abū Hurayrah was asked: "Whom do you support, O Abū Hurayrah?" He said: Your wife says: "Spend on me or divorce me," and your slave says: "Feed me and employ me," and your son says: "To whom will you leave me?"

Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb—and he is trustworthy—also narrated it likewise from Ibn ʿAjlān, with the aforementioned chain of transmission, as in the Musnad of Aḥmad (10818) and al-Sunan al-Kubrā of the author (9167), except that he raised the aforementioned addition [to the Prophet], and that is an error.

It was transmitted in full and in abbreviated form by Aḥmad (7155), (7429), (7741), (7867), (8247), (9122), (9613), (10172), (10223), (10511), and (10785); al-Bukhārī (1426), (1428), and (5355); Abū Dāwūd (1676); the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā (9165); and Ibn Ḥibbān (3363) through multiple paths from Abū Hurayrah, with it. In Aḥmad (7741): I said to Ayyūb: "What does 'from behind wealth' mean?" He said: "From the surplus of your wealth."

In Aḥmad (7429) and (10785), al-Bukhārī (5355), the author (9165), and Ibn Ḥibbān (3363) there is an addition: The woman says: "Either you feed me, or you divorce me…" (similar to the aforementioned addition) as a statement of Abū Hurayrah. In al-Bukhārī (1427) there is an addition: "And whoever refrains from asking, Allah will make him self-sufficient, and whoever is content with what he has, Allah will enrich him."

Some parts of the ḥadīth came with other aspects of it through other paths from Abū Hurayrah in Aḥmad (7317), (8702), and (8743); Muslim (1042); Abū Dāwūd (1677); al-Tirmidhī (680); and Ibn Ḥibbān (3346).