Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2257
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيَّ، يَقُولُ الدِّرْهَمُ بِالدِّرْهَمِ وَالدِّينَارُ بِالدِّينَارِ . فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ يَقُولُ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ . قَالَ أَمَا إِنِّي لَقِيتُ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ فَقُلْتُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ هَذَا الَّذِي تَقُولُ فِي الصَّرْفِ أَشَىْءٌ سَمِعْتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ أَمْ شَىْءٌ وَجَدْتَهُ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ . فَقَالَ مَا وَجَدْتُهُ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَلاَ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَلَكِنْ أَخْبَرَنِي أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " إِنَّمَا الرِّبَا فِي النَّسِيئَةِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Hurairah said: I heard Abu Saʿid al-Khudri say, ‘A dirham for a dirham and a dinar for a dinar.’ I said, ‘I heard Ibn ʿAbbas say otherwise.’ He replied, ‘I did meet Ibn ʿAbbas, and I asked him: “Tell me about what you say concerning currency exchange: is it something you heard from the Messenger of Allah, or something you found in the Book of Allah?” He said, “I found it neither in the Book of Allah nor heard it from the Messenger of Allah. Rather, Usamah ibn Zayd told me that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Usury is only in deferred exchange.’”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report juxtaposes the equal-for-equal statement attributed to Abu Saʿid with Ibn ʿAbbas’s report from Usamah that usury is only in deferred exchange. ‘Currency exchange’ renders al-sarf in context.