He said that he was the governor of Kufa. One day he gave a sermon and said, "There is trial in giving out this wealth, and there is trial in withholding it." With these very words the Messenger of Allah ﷺ delivered his sermon until he finished, then he descended.
أنه قال: كان بالكوفة أميرا، قال: فخطب يوما فقال: إن في إعطاء هذا المال فتنة، وفي إمساكه فتنة، وبذلك قام رسول الله ﷺ في خطبته حتى فرغ، ثم نزل.
Ahmad narrated it (20586), saying, Muhammad bin Jafar told us, Shuba told us, saying, I heard Ishaq bin Suwayd say, I heard Mutarrif bin Abdullah bin Shikhir relate from a man among the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and he mentioned it. Its chain of transmission is sahih. Ishaq bin Suwayd, who is Adawi Basri, is trustworthy, and a group of the imams affirmed his trustworthiness, though Ibn Hajar said of him, "Truthful."As for what was narrated from Hakeem bin Hizam, who said, wealth came from Bahrain, and the Prophet ﷺ summoned Abbas and scooped out a handful for him. He said, "Shall I give you more?" He said, "Yes." So he scooped out another handful for him. Then he said, "Shall I give you more?" He said, "Yes." So he scooped out another handful for him. Then he said, "Shall I give you more?" He said, "Yes." So he scooped out another handful for him. Then he said, "Shall I give you more?" He said, "Yes." He said, "Leave some for those who come after you." Then he called me and scooped out a handful for me. I said, "Messenger of Allah, is it better for me or worse for me?" He said, "No, rather it is worse for you." So I returned to him what he had given me. Then I said, "No, by the One in whose hand is my soul, I will not accept a gift from anyone after you." Muhammad said, Hakeem said, So I said, "Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah to bless me." He said, "O Allah, bless him in the deal struck by his hand."This is daif. Tabarani narrated it in Kabir (3/230) from Husayn bin Ishaq Tustari and Abbas bin Hamdan Hanafi Isbahani, both of whom said, Ali bin Munzir told us, Muhammad bin Fudayl told us, from Ismail bin Muslim, from Ibn Sirin, from Hakeem bin Hizam, and he mentioned it.Haythami said in Majmaa (3/97), "It contains Ismail bin Muslim, about whom there is much discussion, though it has been said of him that he is truthful but makes mistakes." He also said, "Hakeem has another hadith besides this one in the Sahih."Munziri mentioned it in Targheeb wa Tarheeb (1217) using a weakening phrasing, attributing it to Tabarani.I say, Ismail bin Muslim is Makki, whom the majority of scholars judged daif. Ibn Adi said, His hadiths are not well preserved, yet his hadith is written down.As for Hakeem's hadith in the Sahih to which Haythami referred, it is what was mentioned in the chapter "Whoever takes something out of eager desire is not blessed in it."On this subject there is also a report from Ibn Abbas, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Free yourselves from need of people, even if only by a piece of tooth-stick." Bazzar narrated it, in Kashf Astar (913), from Abdul-Wahid bin Ghiyath, Abdul-Aziz bin Muslim told us, Amash told us, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he mentioned it. It contains Amash's use of "an" (indirect transmission), and he heard from Saeed bin Jubayr only four hadiths, as Ali bin Madini said, and this is not among them. See Tuhfat Tahsil (p. 136).