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bayhaqi:15210Abū Zakariyyā b. Abū Isḥāq > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-Rabīʿ b. Sulaymān > al-Shāfiʿī > Sufyān > Misʿar > Ḥabīb b. Abū Thābit > Ṭāwus

[Machine] That Uthman ibn Affan used to appoint the master.  

البيهقي:١٥٢١٠أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ نا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أنا الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ أنا الشَّافِعِيُّ أنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مِسْعَرٍ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ

أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ ؓ كَانَ يُوقَفُ الْمَوْلَى  


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malik:31-60Mālik > Balaghah

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Uthman ibn Affan forbade hoarding .  

مالك:٣١-٦٠وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ

أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ كَانَ يَنْهَى عَنِ الْحُكْرَةِ