Azami 4179

Tirmidhi (658), Nasai (2582), and Ibn Majah (1844) all narrated it, all from the hadith of Hafsa bint Sirin, from Rabab, from her uncle Salman bin Amir, and he mentioned it. The wording given here is that of Nasai. As for Tirmidhi, he added in it, "When one of you breaks his fast, let him break it with dates, for they are a blessing, and if he cannot find dates, then with water, for it is purifying." This passage was also recorded by Abu Dawud (2355) and Ibn Majah (1699), both through this same route. Tirmidhi graded it hasan, and Ibn Khuzayma (2385), Ibn Hibban (3344), and Hakim (1/407) graded it sahih, all through this route.That is indeed correct, for Rabab, with the first letter having a fatha and the b unshaddaed, the daughter of Sulay, mother of Raih, was narrated from by Hafsa bint Sirin. Ibn Hibban mentioned her in his "Thiqat" (4/244) and included her hadith in his Sahih. No criticism of her has been recorded, and she belongs to the generation of the Followers. Her hadith has a firm basis from the hadith of Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah bin Masud, which will be mentioned in the chapter that follows, that the Prophet ﷺ said to her, "Yes, she has two rewards, the reward of kinship and the reward of charity." So her hadith is graded hasan on account of the reasons mentioned.On this subject there is also a hadith from Abu Talha, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Charity given to a poor person is charity, but charity given to a relative is both charity and maintaining family ties." This was recorded by Tabarani in "Al-Kabir" (5/105), and in "Al-Awsat" (Majma Bahrayn 1423), from Ali bin Saeed Razi, who said, Harun bin Musa bin Rashid Mustamli and Muhammad bin Ammar Mawsili told us, they said, Umar bin Ayub Mawsili told us, from Musad bin Uqba, from Yahya bin Abu Ishaq, from Anas, from Abu Talha, and he mentioned it.In this chain there are men whom no one besides Ibn Hibban has confirmed as reliable, among them Harun bin Musa Mustamli Kabir, known as Mikhala, as Tabarani said in "Al-Kabir," and Musad bin Uqba, both of whom Ibn Hajar places in the rank of "acceptable." As for Haythami, he said in "Al-Majma" (3/116), "It contains someone I do not know."I say, there are two men named Yahya bin Abu Ishaq, both of whom narrate from Anas, and both belong to the same generation. One of them is Hinai, who is "unknown." Mizzi asserted in "Tahzib Kamal" that this is the Hinai. Ibn Hajar, however, holds that Hinai is a different person altogether, named Yahya bin Yazid Abu Nasr, who is among the men of Muslim. The second is Yahya bin Abu Ishaq Hadrami, their freedman, of Basra, who likewise narrates from Anas bin Malik, except that this one is among the men accepted by the whole community and is trustworthy. Yahya bin Main spoke critically of him, saying, "There is some weakness in his hadith," and Imam Ahmad said, "There is something objectionable in his hadith."One feels more confident that it is Yahya bin Abu Ishaq Hinai, for if this hadith had come from Hadrami, his prominent students would have narrated it from him. And Allah, the Exalted, knows best.As for what has been reported from Suraqa bin Malik, that the Prophet ﷺ said to him, "Shall I not direct you to the best form of charity? Your daughter, once divorced and returned to you, has no one to provide for her but you," this contains a break in the chain. It was recorded by Ibn Majah (3667), Bukhari in "Adab al-Mufrad" (80, 81), and Hakim (4/176), all through various routes from Musa bin Ali bin Rabah, who said, I heard my father mention, from Suraqa bin Malik, and he related the hadith.This is how it appears in the narration of Ibn Majah and Hakim, while in one of the two narrations of Bukhari in "Adab al-Mufrad" it reads, "from Suraqa bin Malik," and in the second narration it reads, "that the Prophet ﷺ said to Suraqa bin Malik." Alai and others have explicitly stated that the narration of Ali bin Rabah from Suraqa is a mursal one, and this is supported by what Ahmad recorded (17586), where he said, "It has reached me from Suraqa bin Malik," and mentioned it. This makes clear that he did not hear it directly from Suraqa bin Malik, there being a man between them.