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tabarani:11535ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > ʿAmr b. ʿAwn al-Wāsiṭī > Khālid > Ḥusayn b. Qays > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to the companions regarding measuring and weighing: "You have been entrusted with something in which the previous nations were destroyed."  

الطبراني:١١٥٣٥حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ الْوَاسِطِيُّ ثنا خَالِدٌ عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِأَصْحَابِ الْكَيْلِ وَالْمِيزَانِ «إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ وُلِّيتُمْ أَمْرًا فِيهِ هَلَكَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ»  


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tirmidhi:1217Saʿīd b. Yaʿqūb al-Ṭālqānī > Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh al-Wāsiṭī > Ḥusayn b. Qays > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to the people of weights and measures: "Indeed you have been entrusted with two matters that nations preceding you in the past were destroyed for."  

[Abu 'Eisa said:] We do not know this Hadith to be Marfu' except through the narration of Husain bin Qais, and Husain bin Qais was graded weak in Hadith. This has been reported as Maquf narration from Ibn 'Abbas with a Sahih chain of narration.
الترمذي:١٢١٧حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الطَّالْقَانِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْوَاسِطِيُّ عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لأَصْحَابِ الْمِكْيَالِ وَالْمِيزَانِ إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ وُلِّيتُمْ أَمْرَيْنِ هَلَكَتْ فِيهِ الأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ قَبْلَكُمْ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مَرْفُوعًا إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ وَحُسَيْنُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ يُضَعَّفُ فِي الْحَدِيثِ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا بِإِسْنَادٍ صَحِيحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ مَوْقُوفًا
hakim:2232Abū Bakr b. Isḥāq al-Faqīh > ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > ʿAmr b. ʿAwn > Khālid b. ʿAbdullāh > Ḥusayn b. Qays > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās > Qāl Rasūl

That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to the people of weights and measures: "Indeed you have been entrusted with two matters that nations preceding you in the past were destroyed for." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 1217)   

الحاكم:٢٢٣٢أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الْفَقِيهُ أَنْبَأَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَوْنٍ أَنْبَأَ خَالِدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِأَصْحَابِ الْكَيْلِ وَالْوَزْنِ «إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ وُلِّيتُمْ أَمْرًا فِيهِ هَلَكَةُ الْأُمَّةِ السَّالِفَةِ»  

هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ حسين بن قيس ضعفوه
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"يَا مَعْشَرَ التُجَّارِ: إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ وَلِيتُمْ أَمْرًا هَلَكَتْ فِيهِ الأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ: الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ".  

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