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ahmad:15457Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. Faḍāʾ from his father > ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh from his father > Nahá Nabī Allāh ﷺ

On the authority of his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade to break the coins of the Muslims current among them except for some defect. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3449)  

أحمد:١٥٤٥٧حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ فَضَاءٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

نَهَى نَبِيُّ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُكْسَرَ سِكَّةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَائِزَةُ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلَّا مِنْ بَأْسٍ  


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abudawud:3449Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Muʿtamir > Muḥammad b. Faḍāʾ from his father > ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh from his father

On the authority of his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade to break the coins of the Muslims current among them except for some defect.  

أبو داود:٣٤٤٩حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرٌ سَمِعْتُ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ فَضَاءٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُكْسَرَ سِكَّةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَائِزَةُ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلاَّ مِنْ بَأْسٍ  

ibnmajah:2263Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And Sūwayd b. Saʿīd Wahārūn b. Isḥāq > al-Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. Faḍāʾ from his father > ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh from his father

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade breaking the coins of the Muslims that are in circulation among them, without any necessary reason.”(1)  

ابن ماجة:٢٢٦٣حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَهَارُونُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالُوا أَنْبَأَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ فَضَاءٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ كَسْرِ سِكَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَائِزَةِ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلاَّ مِنْ بَأْسٍ  

tabarani:14123Abū Muslim al-Kashhī > Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī > Muḥammad b. Faḍāʾ from his father > ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī from his father

[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , prohibited breaking the path that is allowed for Muslims between them, except in cases where breaking a dirham and making it into silver or breaking a dinar and making it into a dirham is necessary."  

الطبراني:١٤١٢٣حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُسْلِمٍ الْكَشِّيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فَضَاءٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ تُكْسَرَ سِكَّةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَائِزَةُ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلَّا مِنْ بَأْسٍ أَنْ يَكْسِرَ الدِّرْهَمَ فَيَجْعَلُهُ فِضَّةً أَوْ يُكْسَرَ الدِّينَارُ فَيُجْعَلُ دِرْهَمًا»  

tabarani:14124Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿIrq al-Ḥimṣī > ʿAṭiyyah b. Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd from my father > Isḥāq b. Rāhawayh > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. Faḍāʾ from his father > ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī from his father

On the authority of his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade to break the coins of the Muslims current among them except for some defect. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3449)  

الطبراني:١٤١٢٤حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِرْقٍ الْحِمْصِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عَطِيَّةُ بْنُ بَقِيَّةَ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ أَبِي عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ رَاهَوَيْهِ عَنْ مُعْتَمِرِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ فَضَاءٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ كَسْرِ سِكَّةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَائِزَةِ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلَّا مِنْ بَأْسٍ»  

bayhaqi:11173al-Faqīh Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī And ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī Waʾabū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamdān Waʾabū Naṣr b. Qatādah Waʾabū Naṣr Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Ṣaffār > Abū ʿAmr b. Nujayd > Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdullāh al-Kajjī > al-Anṣārī > Muḥammad b. Faḍāʾ from his father > ʿAlqamah b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī from his father

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , forbade the breaking of the Muslims' monetary exchange unless it is necessary to break a dirham, in which case it should be replaced with silver, or to break a dinar, in which case it should be replaced with gold.  

البيهقي:١١١٧٣أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَقِيهُ أَبُو مَنْصُورٍ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ وَأَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ وَأَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَمْدَانَ وَأَبُو نَصْرِ بْنُ قَتَادَةَ وَأَبُو نَصْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الصَّفَّارُ قَالُوا ثنا أَبُو عَمْرِو بْنُ نُجَيْدٍ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْكَجِّيُّ ثنا الْأَنْصَارِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فَضَاءٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ نَهَى أَنْ تُكْسَرَ سِكَّةُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْجَائِزَةُ بَيْنَهُمْ إِلَّا مِنْ بَأْسٍ أَنْ يُكْسَرَ دِرْهَمٌ فَيُجْعَلَ فِضَّةً أَوْ يُكْسَرَ الدِّينَارُ فَيُجْعَلَ ذَهَبًا