2399 — Hishām ibn ʿAmmār and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqiyyān narrated to us, they said: Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say: "The borrowed thing is to be returned, and the gift of a milch animal is to be given back."

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= Al-Nakhaʿī, and this was also the view of Sufyān al-Thawrī, the people of opinion (ahl al-raʾy), and Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh. Mālik said: If its destruction is apparent, he is not liable; if its destruction is hidden, he is liable. … We said: And Imām Aḥmad said in one narration: If the lender stipulated liability, then it is guaranteed; otherwise, it is a trust. See "Al-Furūʿ" 4/474 by Ibn Mufliḥ.

(1) Ḥasan due to what precedes it, and this chain is weak because of the unknown status of Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd, who is al-Sāḥilī, as clarified in "Al-Musnad." This is the view of al-Khaṭīb, Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, al-Zaylaʿī, and Ibn Ḥajar. He is not al-Maqburī, as al-Būṣīrī assumed in "Miṣbāḥ al-Zujājah," folio 152, and thus declared its chain authentic!

It was also narrated in extended form by Aḥmad (22507), al-Ṭabarānī in "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (621), al-Dāraquṭnī (4066), al-Bayhaqī 6/264 and 265, and Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" 7/folios 342–343, via multiple paths from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, with this chain. Some of them leave Anas unnamed, saying: from a man of the people of Medina.

It has a supporting witness from the ḥadīth of Abū Umāmah, which precedes it.

The statement "The borrowed thing is to be returned" is corroborated by the ḥadīth of Yaʿlā ibn Umayyah in Aḥmad (17950), Abū Dāwūd (3566), and Ibn Ḥibbān (4720), and its chain is authentic.

And the ḥadīth of Ṣafwān ibn Umayyah in Aḥmad (15302), Abū Dāwūd (3562), and al-Nasāʾī in "Al-Kubrā" (5747), in which it says: "Rather, it is a borrowed thing that is guaranteed."

Note: We had previously declared the chain of this ḥadīth authentic in our commentary on "Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān" (5094), assuming that Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd was al-Maqburī — this should be corrected here. Rather, the text of the ḥadīth is ḥasan (good) due to its supporting witnesses.