70 - Chapter: Responding to the One Who Asks

2565 - Harun ibn 'Abdullah informed us, saying: Ma'n narrated to us, saying: Malik narrated to us. (Another chain:) And Qutaybah ibn Sa'id informed us, from Malik, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Ibn Bujayd al-Ansari, from his grandmother, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Respond to the one who asks, even with a hoof." In the narration of Harun: "a burnt hoof."

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Also recorded by Ahmad (21405) and (21481) from Muhammad ibn Ja'far, with the same chain.
Also recorded by Ahmad (21404) and (21544) from Waki', from al-A'mash, from a man, from Kharashah ibn al-Hurr, with the same chain, and the unnamed man is Sulayman ibn Mus-hir, as is explicitly stated in this narration of the author.
It will be repeated with its chain and text under number (5333).
It will also come via Sufyan al-Thawri, from al-A'mash, with the same chain, under number (4459).
It has preceded it via Abu Zur'ah ibn 'Amr, from Kharashah ibn al-Hurr, with the same chain.

(1) In (M): He said: And he informed me, and the letter (ح) (symbol for chain transference) does not appear in (R) and (M).
(2) Its chain is sound (hasan). Ibn Bujayd — who is 'Abd al-Rahman, as will come in narration (2574), and al-Mizzi explicitly stated this in "Tuhfat al-Ashraf" (18305), and in his "Tahdhib" (in his biography and in the section on sons) — a number of narrators reported from him, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in "al-Thiqat" 3/257, and al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar mentioned in "al-Taqrib" that he had seen (the Prophet). The rest of its narrators are trustworthy (thiqat). Ma'n is Ibn 'Isa al-Qazzaz, and it is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (2357).
It is in Malik's "Muwatta'" 2/923, and from his chain Ahmad recorded it (27450), and Ibn Hibban (3374), and its wording in the "Muwatta'" is: "Respond to the poor person..."
Hafs ibn Maysarah differed from Malik in its text — as in "al-Tamhid" 4/300 — and narrated it from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Ibn Bujayd, from his grandmother with the wording: "Let no female neighbor belittle [a gift to] her female neighbor, even if it be a sheep's hoof." Al-Bukhari said in "al-Tarikh al-Kabir" 5/262: The hadith of Malik is more worthy (of acceptance).
And this hadith: "Let no female neighbor belittle..." was narrated by Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam, from 'Amr ibn Mu'adh al-Ash'ali, from his grandmother that she said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "O believing women, let none of you belittle giving a gift to her neighbor, even if it be a burnt sheep's hoof." It is in the "Muwatta'" 2/996, and its chain is weak due to the unknown status of 'Amr ibn Mu'adh, but it is authentic from the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, recorded by al-Bukhari (6017) and Muslim (1030).