and the ḥadīth is evidence among dozens of pieces of evidence that the sectarian books have missed much of the guidance of the best of creation (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). Is there anything in that which would motivate the fanatics to pay attention to studying the sunnah and to be enlightened by its light? Perhaps, hopefully.

- "Zakāh is due on these four: wheat, barley, raisins, and dates." It was narrated by al-Dāraqutnī (201) through the chain of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥakam from Mūsá ibn Ṭalḥah from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb who said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) only prescribed zakāh..." etc. And Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh is al-ʿArzamī, who is abandoned, but he has been corroborated. It was also narrated by al-Dāraqutnī and al-Ḥākim (1/401) through the chain of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī who reported from Sufyān from ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān from Mūsá ibn Ṭalḥah who said: "We have the book of Muʿādh ibn Jabal from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) that he only took ṣadaqah from wheat..." etc. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the criteria of the two shaykhs," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. Al-Ḥākim's complete statement: "And Mūsá ibn Ṭalḥah is a great tābiʿī, and it is not denied that he met during the days of Muʿādh (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu)." Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Talkhīṣ" (5/560): "I said: Abū Zurʿah denied that, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: He neither met Muʿādh nor did he reach him." I said: But al-Ḥākim mentioned a witness for him with an authentic isnād in the wording: