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nasai:3695 – al-Haytham b. Marwān b. al-Haytham b. ʿImrān > Muḥammad / Ibn Bakkār b. Bilāl > Yaḥyá > al-Awzāʿī > Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

"The likeness of the one who takes back his gift is that of a dog which vomits, then goes back to its vomit." (One of the narrators) Al-Awza'i said: "I heard him narrating this Hadith to 'Ata bin Abi Rabah."

النسائي:٣٦٩٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ بَكَّارِ بْنِ بِلاَلٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنِ الأَوْزَاعِيِّ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَرْجِعُ فِي صَدَقَتِهِ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ قَالَ الأَوْزَاعِيُّ سَمِعْتُهُ يُحَدِّثُ عَطَاءَ بْنَ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ

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muslim:1622a – Ibrāhīm b. Mūsá al-Rāzī And ʾIsḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿĪsá b. Yūnus > al-Awzāʿī > Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī > Ibn al-Musayyab > Ibn ʿAbbās

He who gets back his charity is like a dog which vomits, and then returns to that and eats it.

مسلم:١٦٢٢a – حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَى الرَّازِيُّ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا الأَوْزَاعِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَرْجِعُ فِي صَدَقَتِهِ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ فَيَأْكُلُهُ

tabarani:10703 – Aḥmad b. Rishdīn al-Miṣrī > ʿAmr b. Khālid al-Ḥarrānī > Ibn Lahīʿah > Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb > ʿUmar b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jarhad al-Aslamī > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] "From the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he said: 'The example of the one who reverts to his gift is like the example of a dog that vomits and then returns to its vomit.'"

الطبراني:١٠٧٠٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ رِشْدِينَ الْمِصْرِيُّ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جَرْهَدٍ الْأَسْلَمِيَّ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَرْجِعُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ»

nasai-kubra:6490 – al-Haytham b. Marwān b. al-Haytham b. ʿImrān > Muḥammad / Ibn Bakkār b. Bilāl > Yaḥyá > al-Awzāʿī > Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

"The likeness of the one who takes back his gift is that of a dog which vomits, then goes back to its vomit." (One of the narrators) Al-Awza'i said: "I heard him narrating this Hadith to 'Ata bin Abi Rabah." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3695)

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٤٩٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَهُوَ ابْنُ بَكَّارِ بْنِ بِلَالٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنِ الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حُسَيْنٍ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «مَثَلُ الَّذِي يَرْجِعُ فِي صَدَقَتِهِ كَمَثَلِ الْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ» قَالَ الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ سَمِعْتُهُ يُحَدِّثُ عَطَاءَ بْنَ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ