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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad:19310 – ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit > Abū al-Minhāl > Saʾalt al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib And Zayd b. Arqam > al-Ṣarf Fahadhā > Sal Hadhā Faʾinnah Khayr Minnī Waʾaʿlam Wahadhā > Sal Hadhā Fahū Khayr Minnī Waʾaʿlam > Fasaʾaltuhumā Fakilāhumā

[Machine] About exchanging, one person says, "Ask this person, for he is better than me and knows more." And the other person says, "Ask this person, for he is better than me and knows more." He said, "So I asked both of them, and each of them said, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade selling paper for gold as a debt.'"  

أحمد:١٩٣١٠ – حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ أَخْبَرَنِي حَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْمِنْهَالِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ الْبَرَاءَ بْنَ عَازِبٍ وَزَيْدَ بْنَ أَرْقَمَ

عَنِ الصَّرْفِ فَهَذَا يَقُولُ سَلْ هَذَا فَإِنَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي وَأَعْلَمُ وَهَذَا يَقُولُ سَلْ هَذَا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي وَأَعْلَمُ قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُهُمَا فَكِلَاهُمَا يَقُولُ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ بَيْعِ الْوَرِقِ بِالذَّهَبِ دَيْنًا وَسَأَلْتُ هَذَا فَقَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ بَيْعِ الْوَرِقِ بِالذَّهَبِ دَيْنًا  

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ahmad:19338 – Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar And Bahz > Shuʿbah > Ḥabīb > Abū al-Minhāl > Bahz Akhbaraniá Ḥabīb b. Abiá Thābit > Abū al-Minhāl a man from Banī Kinānah > Saʾalt al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib > al-Ṣarf > Sal Zayd b. Arqam Faʾinnah Khayr Minnī Waʾaʿlam > Fasaʾalt Zayd > Sal al-Barāʾ Faʾinnah Khayr Minnī Waʾaʿlam

[Machine] I heard Abu Al-Minhal say that he asked Al-Bara' bin 'Azib about Sarf (a linguistic term). Al-Bara' replied, "Ask Zaid bin Arqam as he is better and more knowledgeable than me." He then asked Zaid, who said, "Ask Al-Bara' as he is better and more knowledgeable than me." Finally, they both said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade selling paper for gold as a debt."  

أحمد:١٩٣٣٨ – حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ وَبَهْزٌ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ حَبِيبٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْمِنْهَالِ قَالَ بَهْزٌ أَخْبَرَنِى حَبِيبُ بْنُ أَبِى ثَابِتٍ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْمِنْهَالِ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي كِنَانَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ الْبَرَاءَ بْنَ عَازِبٍ عَنِ الصَّرْفِ؟ فَقَالَ سَلْ زَيْدَ بْنَ أَرْقَمَ فَإِنَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي وَأَعْلَمُ قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُ زَيْدًا فَقَالَ سَلِ الْبَرَاءَ فَإِنَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي وَأَعْلَمُ قَالَ فَقَالَا جَمِيعًا نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ بَيْعِ الْوَرِقِ بِالذَّهَبِ دَيْنًا  

tabarani:5038 – ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > ʿAffān > Shuʿbah > Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit > Abū al-Minhāl > Saʾalt al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib And Zayd b. Arqam > al-Ṣarf Fahadhā > Sal Hadhā Wahadhā > Sal Hadhā Faʾinnah Khayr Minnī Waʾaʿlam > Dhalik Fasaʾaltuhumā

[Machine] Regarding exchange, this person says, "Ask this person." And this person says, "Ask this person, for he is better than me and knows both of them say that." So, I asked them, and they said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prohibited selling paper for gold as a debt."  

الطبراني:٥٠٣٨ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا عَفَّانُ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْمِنْهَالِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ الْبَرَاءَ بْنَ عَازِبٍ وَزَيْدَ بْنَ أَرْقَمَ

عَنِ الصَّرْفِ فَهَذَا يَقُولُ سَلْ هَذَا وَهَذَا يَقُولُ سَلْ هَذَا فَإِنَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِنِّي وَأَعْلَمُ كِلَاهُمَا يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ فَسَأَلْتُهُمَا فَقَالَا «نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ بَيْعِ الْوَرِقِ بِالذَّهَبِ دَيْنًا»