Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 5553
أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي قَالَ، حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ، - هُوَ ابْنُ طَهْمَانَ - عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنْ يُخْلَطَ التَّمْرُ وَالزَّبِيبُ وَأَنْ يُخْلَطَ الزَّهْوُ وَالتَّمْرُ وَالزَّهْوُ وَالْبُسْرُ.
Ahmad ibn Hafs ibn ʿAbdullah reported to us; he said: My father narrated to me; he said: Ibrahim—namely, Ibn Tahman—narrated to me, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿid, from Sulayman, from Malik ibn al-Harith, from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade mixing dried dates with raisins, dates just beginning to ripen with dried dates, and dates just beginning to ripen with unripe dates.
Translation notes
The Arabic names different stages of date ripeness; al-zahw and al-busr are retained here as ‘dates just beginning to ripen’ and ‘unripe dates.’