67 - Chapter: The Reward of the Trustee(1) When He Gives Charity with His Master's Permission

2560 - ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Haytham ibn ʿUthmān informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, saying: Sufyān narrated to us, from Burayd ibn Abī Burda, from his grandfather,

from Abū Mūsā, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The believer to the believer is like a building, each part strengthening the other." And he said: "The trustworthy trustee who gives what he has been commanded to give, with a contented soul, is one of the two givers of charity."(3)

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= His saying: "wa lā makhīlah" means arrogance. Al-Sindī said this.

(1) In the margin of (K): the servant. (Variant reading).
(2) In (M) and the margins of (K) and (H): ṭayyibah, and in the margin of (H): bihī. (Variant reading).
(3) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Sufyān is al-Thawrī, and Burayd is Ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Burda. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under number (2352).

Aḥmad (19667) also narrated it, and al-Bukhārī in separate places (481), (2260), and (6026), and Ibn Ḥibbān (232, with similar wording, abridged) through various chains from Sufyān al-Thawrī, with this chain of transmission. In Aḥmad and al-Bukhārī (6026) there is an addition: When a beggar or someone in need came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, he would say: "Intercede, and you will be rewarded, and Allah will decree through the tongue of His Messenger whatever He wills" (the wording of Aḥmad). This passage has already been mentioned via the chain of Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, with it, under number (2556).

In the narration of al-Bukhārī (481) there is an addition: And he interlaced his fingers, and similarly in narration (6026).

In Ibn Ḥibbān it occurs as: from Ibn Abī Burda, from his father, from Abū Mūsā. What is meant by Ibn Abī Burda is Burayd ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Burda, as Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned after (531), and what is meant by his father is his grandfather Abū Burda.

It was also narrated in full and in separate parts by Aḥmad (19512), (19624), and (19625), al-Bukhārī (1438), (2319), and (2446), Muslim (1023) and (2585), Abū Dāwūd (1684), al-Tirmidhī (1928), and Ibn Ḥibbān (231) and (3359) through various chains from Burayd ibn ʿAbdullāh, with it. In al-Bukhārī (2446) there is an addition: And he interlaced his fingers, and in Aḥmad (19624) there is an addition: "The example of a righteous companion is like the perfume seller... and the example of an evil companion is like the blacksmith's bellows..."

His saying: "one of the two givers of charity" means: he shares with the owner of the wealth in the charity, so the two of them become givers of charity. =