I said, "Messenger of Allah, we are a people who ask one another for wealth."He replied, "A man may ask in a calamity, or in a dispute to reconcile between his people, but once he obtains enough, or nearly so, he should refrain from asking."
قلت: يا رسول الله إنا قوم نتساءل أموالنا؟ قال: يتساءل الرجل في الجائحة أو الفتق ليصلح به بين قومه فإذا بلغ أو كرب استعف.
Imam Ahmad (20033) and Abdul-Razzaq (20018) narrated it, and Tabarani in Al-Kabir (19/406) narrated it through his route, and also through other routes, all of them from the hadith of Bahz bin Hakeem, from his father, from his grandfather, and he mentioned it.Haythami said in Al-Majmaa (3/100), "Its narrators are reliable." I say, it is as he said, and its chain is hasan because of Bahz, for his hadith is hasan.As for his saying "the rift", it means the split, the disagreement between groups, and the fracturing of unity. It is therefore permissible to ask a man for money in order to use it to reconcile between his people over the injuries and bloodshed that occurred.As for what Abu Dawud (1637) narrated through the route of Atiya, from Abu Saeed, with the wording, "Charity is not lawful for a wealthy person, except in the cause of Allah, or for a traveler, or for a poor neighbor who is given charity so that he may give you a gift or invite you," it contains the addition "traveler." Atiya is Ibn Saad Awfi, whose hadith cannot be relied upon, as Munziri said.On this topic, there is also what was narrated from Ziyad bin Harith Sadai, who said, I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and gave him my pledge of allegiance, and he then mentioned a long hadith. He said, A man came to him and said, "Give me some of the charity." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, "Allah, Most High, was not satisfied with the ruling of any prophet or anyone else regarding charity until He Himself ruled on it, dividing it into eight shares. So if you belong to one of those shares, I will give you your due."Abu Dawud (1630) narrated it from Abdullah bin Maslama, who said, Abdullah, meaning Ibn Umar bin Ghanim, narrated to us, from Abdul-Rahman bin Ziyad, that he heard Ziyad bin Nueim Hadrami, that he heard Ziyad bin Harith Sadai, and he mentioned it.Its chain is daif because of Abdul-Rahman bin Ziyad, who is Afriqi, a daif narrator. Nasai and Ahmad declared him daif, and Ibn Hibban said, "He narrates fabricated reports from reliable narrators, and he practices tadlis." The one who narrated from him, Abdullah bin Umar bin Ghanim Raini, is disputed. Ibn Yunus and others considered him reliable, Abu Hatim did not know him, and Ibn Hibban went to excess in declaring him daif. He is among the narrators used by Abu Dawud.On this topic there is also what was narrated from Anas, that a man from the Ansar came to the Prophet ﷺ asking him for something. He said, "Is there nothing at all in your house?" He said, "Yes, there is a piece of cloth, part of which we wear and part of which we spread out, and a wooden bowl from which we drink water." He said, "Bring them both to me." So he brought them to him, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took them in his hand and said, "Who will buy these two?" A man said, "I will take them for a dirham." He said, "Who will offer more than a dirham?" twice or three times. A man said, "I will take them for two dirhams." So he gave them to him, took the two dirhams, and gave them to the Ansari man, saying, "Buy food with one of them and give it to your family, and buy an axe with the other and bring it to me."So he brought it to him, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ fixed a handle into it with his own hand, then said to him, "Go and gather wood and sell it, and do not let me see you for fifteen days." So the man went off to gather wood and sell it, and he came back having earned ten dirhams. With part of it he bought clothing, and with part of it he bought food.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "This is better for you than for begging to come as a mark on your face on the Day of Resurrection. Begging is not fitting except for three, one in dire poverty, one burdened with a crushing debt, or one suffering from a painful wound (owed blood money)."Abu Dawud (1641), Tirmidhi (1218), Nasai (4512), and Ibn Majah (2198) narrated it, all of them through the route of Akhdar bin Ajlan, from Abu Bakr Hanafi, from Anas bin Malik, who mentioned the hadith, except that Nasai abridged it.Its chain is daif because of Abu Bakr, who is Abdullah bin Abdullah Hanafi, an unknown narrator, and it was on this basis that Ibn Qattan faulted it. Hafiz quoted in his Tahdhib, in the biography of Abu Bakr Hanafi, from Bukhari, that he said, "His hadith is not sound." Bukhari mentioned in Tarikh al-Kabir (5/146) the hadith of Anas, "The Prophet ﷺ sold to the highest bidder," in an abridged form, through the route of Abu Bakr, from Anas, without stating any ruling on it. So consider where it was that Bukhari said, "His hadith is not sound."