The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A man has the greater right to the very item of his property when he finds it, and the seller may pursue the one who sold it to him."
حدثنا محمد بن داود قال حدثنا عمرو بن عون قال حدثنا هشيم عن موسى بن السائب عن قتادة عن الحسن
رسول الله ﷺ الرجل أحق بعين ماله إذا وجده ويتبع البائع من باعه
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[Its chain of transmission is daif]. Abu Dawud narrated it in the Book of Business Transactions, chapter on a man finding his own property with another man, no. 3531, from Amr bin Awn, with this wording, and it is also in Al-Kubra, no. 6277.Qatada narrated it with an ana chain, as noted earlier at no. 34.The hadith has a daif corroborating narration in Daraqutni, 3/28. See also the hadith that follows.