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bayhaqi:775Abū ʿAlī al-Rūdhbārī Binaysābūr And ʾAbū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar b. Burhān al-Ghazzāl Waʾabū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān Waʾabū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh b. Yaḥyá b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Sukkarī > Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār > al-Ḥasan b. ʿArafah > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak > Yūnus b. Yazīd al-Aylī > al-Zuhrī > Sahl b. Saʿd al-Sāʿidī > Ubay b. Kaʿb

[Machine] The passage means: "The permissibility of performing fitya in water was only allowed at the beginning of Islam, then it was prohibited. Al-Zuhri did not hear this hadith directly from Sahl, he only heard it from some of his companions who heard it from Sahl."  

البيهقي:٧٧٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ بِنَيْسَابُورَ وَأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ بُرْهَانَ الْغَزَّالُ وَأَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ وَأَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ السُّكَّرِيُّ بِبَغْدَادَ قَالُوا ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَرَفَةَ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْأَيْلِيِّ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ

إِنَّمَا كَانَتِ الْفُتْيَا فِي الْمَاءِ مِنَ الْمَاءِ رُخْصَةً فِي أَوَّلِ الْإِسْلَامِ ثُمَّ نُهِيَ عَنْهَا وَهَذَا الْحَدِيثُ لَمْ يَسْمَعْهُ الزُّهْرِيُّ مِنْ سَهْلٍ إِنَّمَا سَمِعَهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ سَهْلٍ