Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1217
حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الطَّالْقَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْوَاسِطِيُّ، عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم لأَصْحَابِ الْمِكْيَالِ وَالْمِيزَانِ " إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ وُلِّيتُمْ أَمْرَيْنِ هَلَكَتْ فِيهِ الأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ قَبْلَكُمْ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ مَرْفُوعًا إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ . وَحُسَيْنُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ يُضَعَّفُ فِي الْحَدِيثِ . وَقَدْ رُوِيَ هَذَا بِإِسْنَادٍ صَحِيحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ مَوْقُوفًا .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Sa'id ibn Ya'qub al-Talqani narrated to us: Khalid ibn Abd Allah al-Wasiti narrated to us, from Husayn ibn Qays, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah said to those who use measures and scales: You have been entrusted with two matters over which the nations before you perished. Abu Isa said: We know this report as traced back to the Prophet only through Husayn ibn Qays, who is considered weak in hadith. It has also been reported with a sound chain from Ibn Abbas as his own statement, not as a prophetic report.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report addresses those responsible for measures and weights, warning of the danger of dishonesty in them.