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السيوطي:٢٠٨٤١a

"مَنْ الْتَقَطَ لُقَطَةً فَليُعَرِّفْها سَنَةً، فَإِن جَاءَ رَبُّها وَإِلا فَلْيُعَرِّف عَدَدَها وَوكَاءَها ثُمَّ ليَأكُلها، فإن جَاءَ صَاحِبُها فَلْيَرُدَّهَا عَلَيه".  

[ق] البيهقى في السنن عن زيد بن خالد

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Collected by Tirmidhī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī
tirmidhi:1373Muḥammad b. Bashhār

"Make a public announcement about it for one year, if it is claimed then give it to him. Otherwise remember its sack, string, and its count. Then use it, and if its owner comes, give it to him."  

الترمذي:١٣٧٣حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ حَدَّثَنِي سَالِمٌ أَبُو النَّضْرِ عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنِ اللُّقَطَةِ فَقَالَ عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً فَإِنِ اعْتُرِفَتْ فَأَدِّهَا وَإِلاَّ فَاعْرِفْ وِعَاءَهَا وَعِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا وَعَدَدَهَا ثُمَّ كُلْهَا فَإِذَا جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا فَأَدِّهَا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى حَدِيثُ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ قَالَ أَحْمَدُ أَصَحُّ شَيْءٍ فِي هَذَا الْبَابِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثُ

ذِكْرُ السَّبَبِ الَّذِي هُوَ مُضْمَرٌ فِي نَفْسِ الْخِطَابِ الَّذِي تَقَدَّمَ ذِكْرُنَا لَهُ

ibnhibban:4895ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hamdānī > Abū al-Rabīʿ > Ibn Wahb > al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. ʿUthmān > Abū al-Naḍr > Busr b. Saʿīd > Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī

Make announcement of that for one year, but if it is not recognised (by the owner), then recognise its big and strap, then eat it; and if its owner comes, then give that to him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Al-Dahhak b. Uthman with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of words. (Using translation from Muslim 1722g)  

ابن حبّان:٤٨٩٥أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي النَّضْرِ عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ قَالَ

سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنِ اللُّقَطَةِ فَقَالَ «عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً فَإِنْ لَمْ تَعْرِفْ فَاعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا ثُمَّ كُلْهَا فَإِنْ جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا فَأَدِّهَا إِلَيْهِ»  

tabarani:5237Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān al-Nawfalī al-Madanī > Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī > Ibn Abū Fudayk > al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. ʿUthmān > Busr b. Saʿīd > Zayd b. Khālid al-Juhanī

"Make a public announcement about it for one year, if it is claimed then give it to him. Otherwise remember its sack, string, and its count. Then use it, and if its owner comes, give it to him." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1373)   

الطبراني:٥٢٣٧حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ النَّوْفَلِيُّ الْمَدَنِيُّ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ الْحِزَامِيُّ ثنا ابْنُ أَبِي فُدَيْكٍ عَنِ الضَّحَّاكِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ سُئِلَ عَنِ اللُّقَطَةِ؟ قَالَ «عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً فَإِنْ جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا وَإِلَّا فَاعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا وَعَدَدَهَا ثُمَّ كُلْهَا فَإِنْ جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا فَرَدَّهَا إِلَيْهِ»  

nasai-kubra:5783Muḥammad b. Salamah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Qāsim > Mālik > Rabīʿah > Yazīd a freed slave of al-Munbaʿith > Zayd b. Khālid

[Machine] A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him about "lukata" (a lost item). He said, "Recognize its strap and its tied knot, then describe it for a year. If its owner comes, give it back to him, otherwise, it is yours."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٧٨٣أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ مَوْلَى الْمُنْبَعِثِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنِ اللُّقَطَةِ فَقَالَ «اعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا ثُمَّ عَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً فَإِنْ جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا وَإِلَّا فَشَأْنُكَ بِهَا»  

bayhaqi:12086Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. al-Muqriʾ > al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq > Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb > Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr

[Machine] "On the authority of the Prophet ﷺ who said: 'Whoever finds a lost item, let them announce it for a year. If its owner comes, they should return it to him. If not, then let them announce its description and features, and then they may consume it. If its owner comes afterward, they should return it to him.'"  

البيهقي:١٢٠٨٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُقْرِئُ أنبأ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا يُوسُفُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ ثنا الضَّحَّاكُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ سَالِمٍ أَبِي النَّضْرِ عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مَنِ الْتَقَطَ لُقَطَةً فَلْيُعَرِّفْهَا سَنَةً فَإِنْ جَاءَ رَبُّهَا وَإِلَّا فَلْيَعْرِفْ عَدَدَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا ثُمَّ لِيُأْكُلْهَا فَإِنْ جَاءَ صَاحِبُهَا فَلْيَرُدَّهَا عَلَيْهِ  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيِّ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي مَتْنِهِ فَإِنِ اعُتُرِفَتْ فَأَدِّهَا وَإِلَّا فَاعْرِفْ عِفَاصَهَا وَوِكَاءَهَا وَعَدَدَهَا