Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2387
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُجَمِّعِ بْنِ جَارِيَةَ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الرَّجُلُ أَحَقُّ بِهِبَتِهِ مَا لَمْ يُثَبْ مِنْهَا " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ali ibn Muhammad and Muhammad ibn Ismail both said: Waki narrated to us: Ibrahim ibn Ismail ibn Mujamma ibn Jariyah al-Ansari narrated to us, from Amr ibn Dinar, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “A man has the greater right to his gift so long as he has not been recompensed for it.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The condition has not been recompensed preserves the passive construction ما لم يثب منها and the English witness sense.