بلال (report 2245; identity unresolved)

Informed us: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd; he said: related to us: Muḥammad ibn Ḥanīfa al-Wāsiṭī; he said: related to us: al-Ḥasan ibn Jabala; he said: related to us: Saʿīd—meaning Ibn al-Ṣalt—from Abū Ḥanīfa; he said: related to us: Bilāl, from Wahb ibn Kaysān, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh—may God be pleased with him—who said: Lifetime gifts became widespread in the time of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. He ascended the pulpit and said: “People, keep your property for yourselves; do not squander it. If anyone grants something as a lifetime gift [during] his life, it belongs to the recipient of that gift after his death.”