3798 - Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Yazid informed us, from Sufyan, from Abd al-Malik, Asim, and Jami', from Abu Wa'il, from Qays ibn Abi Gharazah, who said: We used to sell in al-Baqi', and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came to us, and we were called the "brokers" (al-samasirah). He said: "O assembly of merchants," and he named us with a name better than our name. Then he said: "Indeed, this selling is attended by swearing and lying, so mix it with charity."

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It was corroborated, and the rest of the narrators of the chain are trustworthy. Sufyan: he is Ibn 'Uyaynah, and Abu Wa'il: he is Shaqiq ibn Salamah.
It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (4720).
It was also recorded by Ahmad (16137) and (16138) via Habib ibn Abi Thabit, and Ahmad (16135), (16139), and (16467), Abu Dawud (3326), al-Tirmidhi (1208), and Ibn Majah (2145) via al-A'mash, both from Abu Wa'il, with this chain. Al-Tirmidhi said: A hasan sahih hadith.
It will appear under numbers (3798), (3799), (3800), and (4463).
Al-Sindi said: "Al-samasirah" is the plural of "simsar": the one who manages the matter of selling and preserves it. Al-Khattabi said: It is a foreign word, and many of those who practiced buying and selling among them were non-Arabs, so they adopted this name from them, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, changed it to "merchants" (al-tujjar), which is among the Arabic names. "Al-halif": the false oath, as al-Suyuti mentioned in other than the margin of the book. "Fashubuhu" is a command from al-shawb, meaning: mixing. He commanded them to do so as an expiation for what occurs among them of lying and other things, and what is meant by it is unspecified charity according to the multiplicity of sins. The author used it as evidence that a false oath without intent entails no expiation, since he did not command them to the known expiation for a specific oath. This is supported by what is understood from the upcoming narration that it is "laghw" (heedless or inadvertent speech), as "laghw" appears in it in place of "swearing." And Allah knows best.
(1) In one copy in the margin of (K), there is an addition: ourselves.
(2) In (M): he named.
(3) In (H): better.
(4) Its chain is sahih with respect to Jami': he is Ibn Abi Rashid, and Abd al-Malik — he is Ibn A'yan — the discussion of him has preceded in the previous narration, and Asim: he is Ibn Bahdalah, and he is truthful in hadith. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (4721). =