Jāmiʿ Abū Ṣakhra al-Muḥāribī

Related to us: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ziyād; he said: related to us: ʿAmr ibn Ḥumayd al-Qāḍī; he said: related to me: Sulaymān ibn Yazīd; he said: related to me: Abū Ḥanīfa, from Jāmiʿ Abū Ṣakhra al-Muḥāribī—may God have mercy on them—from a man from Muḥārib, one of the Prophet’s companions, peace be upon him, called Ṭāriq: They camped beside Medina. The Messenger of God came and bought a slaughter camel from them for a wasq of dates. When he took it away and disappeared among Medina’s houses, they said to one another: “We have given a slaughter camel to a man we do not know.” An elderly woman among them said: “I have seen the face of a man whom God would never clothe in treachery.” Soon he sent for them and invited them. He ordered dates to be brought and scattered on a leather mat, then said: “Eat.” They ate until satisfied. He then paid them their dates in full. They said: “We have never seen such fulfilment as today.”

A wasq is a traditional measure; no modern conversion is supplied.

Informed us: Abū al-Haytham al-Muthannā ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī; he said: related to us: Yaʿlā ibn Ḥamza; he said: related to us: Bishr ibn Yaḥyā; he said: related to us: ʿAṭāʾ ibn Jabala; he said: related to us: Abū Ḥanīfa, from Abū Ṣakhra al-Muḥāribī, from Ziyād ibn Ḥudayr: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb—may God be pleased with him—sent him as an alms collector over ʿAyn al-Tamr. He instructed him to take a quarter of a tenth of Muslims’ property, half a tenth of the protected non-Muslims’ property when they travel for trade, and a tenth of the property of people from lands at war.

The fractions are retained: one fortieth, one twentieth and one tenth respectively; no modern application is implied.