"The one who takes back his gift is like the dog that returns to its vomit." (1)

In this chapter, on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, from the Prophet ﷺ, that he said: "It is not lawful for anyone to give a gift and then take it back, except for a parent regarding what he gives to his child."

1345 – Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated that to us, saying: Ibn Abī ʿAdiyy narrated to us, from Ḥusayn al-Muʿallim, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb: that he heard Ṭāwūs narrating from Ibn ʿUmar and Ibn ʿAbbās, both raising the narration to the Prophet ﷺ, with this ḥadīth. (2)

The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.

The practice according to this ḥadīth, in the view of some people of knowledge, (3) is that they said: Whoever gives a gift to a close blood relative (dhī raḥim maḥram), he may not take back his gift. And whoever gives a gift to someone who is not a close blood relative (dhī raḥim maḥram), he may take it back, as long as he has not been recompensed for it. This is the view of al-Thawrī.

And al-Shāfiʿī said: It is not lawful for anyone to give a gift and then take it back, except—

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(1) A ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth, narrated by al-Bukhārī (2589), Muslim (1622), Abū Dāwūd (3538) and (3539), Ibn Mājah (2391), and al-Nasāʾī 6/265 and 266–268. It is in al-Musnad (1872). Some narrate it with the wording: "the one who takes back his charity."
(2) Its chain is ḥasan, narrated by Abū Dāwūd (3539), Ibn Mājah (2377), and al-Nasāʾī 6/265 and 267–268. It is in al-Musnad (2119) and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (5123). It will come later from the author at number (2266).
(3) In the printed edition, there is an addition: "from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others."