Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2386
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الْعَرْعَرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَكِيمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْعُمَرِيُّ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ahmad ibn Abdullah ibn Yusuf al-Arari narrated to us: Yazid ibn Abi Hakim narrated to us: al-Umari narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Ibn Umar, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, “One who takes back his gift is like a dog that returns to its vomit.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The transmitter is identified only as al-Umari in the Arabic text, so no fuller identity is supplied.