Azami 4169

Muslim narrated it in the Book of Zakat (996), from Saeed bin Muhammad Jarmi, who said, Abdul-Rahman bin Abdul-Malik bin Abjar told us, from his father, from Talha bin Musarrif, from Khaythama, and he mentioned it.His words, "qahraman" the qahraman is the trusted agent of a king and his special deputy in managing his income and expenditure. It is a Persian word that has been Arabized. See Mujam Wasit (2/764).Hakim (4/500) mentioned the story of the qahraman in a different context, saying, "A qahraman came to him from Syria, when two nights remained of Ramadan. Abdullah said to him, 'Did you leave enough for my family?' He said, 'I left provision for them.' Abdullah said, 'I insist that when you go back, you leave for them what is sufficient for them, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "It is sin enough for a man that he neglect those he is responsible for."'"He narrated it through the route of Abdul-Razzaq, and it is in his Musannaf (20810), from Mamar, from Abu Ishaq, from Wahb bin Jabir Khaywani, from Abdullah bin Amr, and he mentioned it.A note, there occurred a distortion in the chain given by Hakim, yet he graded it sahih. Hakim said, "Sahih according to the standard of the two Shaykhs [Bukhari and Muslim]." This is an error on his part, for Wahb bin Jabir Khaywani, with a fatha on the kha and a sakin on the ya, is not among the narrators of either of them. Moreover, he is disputed. Ibn Main, Ajli, and Ibn Hibban considered him trustworthy, and he was narrated from, as will follow. Ibn Madini and Nasai said, "Unknown." Dhahabi said, "He is barely known. Abu Ishaq alone narrated from him." In Taqrib it says, "Acceptable," except that he was not corroborated, so his hadith is considered weak by Hafiz Ibn Hajar.Furthermore, the wording of the story varies. In Sahih Muslim, he asked him about the provision for his slaves, while here he asked him about the provision for his family. In Musnad Imam Ahmad (6842), he asked him about the provision for his own family, with this wording, that a freedman of Abdullah bin Amr said to him, "I want to stay this month here in Bayt al-Maqdis." He said to him, "Have you left for your family enough provision for this month?" He said, "No." He said, "Then go back to your family and leave for them enough provision, for I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'It is sin enough for a man that he neglect those he provides for.'"He narrated it from Muhammad bin Jafar, who said, Shuba told us, from Abu Ishaq, "I heard Wahb bin Jabir say," and he mentioned it.Then Abu Dawud (1692), Ahmad (6495), and Bayhaqi (209) narrated it, and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (4240), as did Hakim (1/415), all of them from the hadith of Thawri, who said, Abu Ishaq told us, from Wahb bin Jabir Khaywani, from Abdullah bin Amr bin As, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "It is sin enough for a man that he neglect those he provides for."Hakim said, "Wahb is among the senior successors of Kufa."All these chains revolve around Abu Ishaq from Wahb bin Jabir. Abu Ishaq is Subayi, and he suffered from confusion in old age and also practiced tadlis, except that Sufyan Thawri narrated from him before the confusion set in, and moreover he explicitly stated that he heard directly in one of the narrations. As for Wahb bin Jabir, he is "acceptable" where he is corroborated, and I have not found anyone who corroborated him on this particular wording. So if it is established, then it appears from the variation in the wording of the hadith that it was narrated according to its meaning, for the wording "that he withhold from one whose provision he possesses" differs from the wording "that he neglect one he is responsible for or provides for."On this subject there is also what was narrated from Ibn Umar, from the Prophet ﷺ, that he said, "It is sin enough for a man that he neglect those he provides for." Tabarani narrated it in Al-Kabir (12/382) through the route of Ismail bin Ayyash, from Musa bin Uqba, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, and he mentioned it. Ismail bin Ayyash makes errors in his narrations from non-Syrians, and this one is from Madinans, so perhaps he erred and attributed it to the musnad of Abdullah bin Umar.On this subject there is also what was narrated from Hasan Basri as a raised hadith, "Allah will question every shepherd about what he was entrusted to shepherd, whether he preserved it or neglected it, until a man is questioned about the people of his household." Ibn Hibban narrated it in his Sahih (4493), and it is a mursal narration.The rest of the hadiths about guardianship, and the leader being responsible for those under his charge, will come in their proper places.