Azami 4268

Abu Dawud narrated it (1653, 1654) with two chains of transmission. The first is via Muhammad bin Ubayd Muharibi, who said, Muhammad bin Fudayl told us, from Amash, from Habib bin Abu Thabit, from Kurayb, the freed slave of Ibn Abbas, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it.The second is via Muhammad bin Ala and Uthman bin Abu Shayba, who both said, Muhammad, who is Ibn Abu Ubayda, told us, from his father, from Amash, from Salim, from Kurayb, the freed slave of Ibn Abbas, from Ibn Abbas, similarly, with the addition, "He refused to exchange it for him."Both chains are sahih. Amash narrated from two teachers, and both of them in turn narrated from Kurayb, the freed slave of Ibn Abbas.As for the meaning of the hadith, Khattabi said, "I do not know the explanation for this, but what I do not doubt is that charity is forbidden to Abbas. It is well known that he gave him from the share of close relatives out of the war spoils. It seems likely that what he gave him from the charity camels, if the hadith is confirmed, was repayment of a loan he had taken from him on behalf of the recipients of charity. It has been reported that a complaint was made to him about Abbas withholding charity, so he said, 'It is upon me, along with its equivalent.' It is as if he had taken from him a loan equal to two years' charity, then returned it, or returned the charity of one of the two years to him when the charity camels came to him. So whoever narrated the hadith narrated it in summarized form, without mentioning the reason behind it. And Allah knows best."Bayhaqi said, "This hadith can only bear one of two meanings. The first is that it occurred before charity was forbidden to Banu Hashim, and it was later abrogated. The second is that he had borrowed camels from Abbas for the poor, and then returned them to him."Badhl Majhud (8/197).