Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3718
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ مِينَاءَ، عَنْ جَوْدَانَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَنِ اعْتَذَرَ إِلَى أَخِيهِ بِمَعْذِرَةٍ فَلَمْ يَقْبَلْهَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ مِثْلُ خَطِيئَةِ صَاحِبِ مَكْسٍ " . حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، - هُوَ ابْنُ مِينَاءَ - عَنْ جَوْدَانَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مِثْلَهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
It was narrated that ‘Ali ibn Muhammad said: Waki‘ narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Ibn Mina’, from Jawdan, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘If someone offers his brother an excuse and he does not accept it, he bears a sin like that of a collector of unlawful taxes.’ Muhammad ibn Isma‘il narrated to us: Waki‘ narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Ibn Jurayj, from al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman—namely, Ibn Mina’—from Jawdan, from the Prophet, a report similar to this one.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source includes two transmission routes, the second explicitly described as carrying a similar report. Sahib maks refers to a collector of unlawful levies or tolls.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَنِ اعْتَذَرَ إِلَى أَخِيهِ بِمَعْذِرَةٍ فَلَمْ يَقْبَلْهَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ مِثْلُ خَطِيئَةِ صَاحِبِ مَكْسٍ " .
Sahib maks denotes a collector of unlawful taxes or levies; the precise institutional form is not specified here.
Is ‘collector of unlawful taxes’ the clearest rendering of sahib maks in this context?