"this is a strange ḥadīth and some of them have narrated this ḥadīth from Yūnus from Saʿīd al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah." I said: Al-Ḥākim connected it (2/56) through the route of Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad al-Khazzāz - in Rayy - who reported to us from Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān al-Rāzī, who narrated from al-Mughīrah ibn Muslim from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd from Saʿīd al-Maqburī with it, and he said: "It has a sound isnād." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: and it is as they said, except that I do not know this al-Khazzāz, but he was not alone in narrating it, for al-Munāwī said in "al-Fayḍ": "And al-Tirmidhī said in "al-ʿIlal": I asked Muḥammad, meaning al-Bukhārī, about it? He said: It is an erroneous ḥadīth, narrated by Ibn ʿUlayyah from Yūnus from Saʿīd al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah, and I used to rejoice in it until some of them narrated it from Yūnus from someone who narrated it from Saʿīd from Abū Hurayrah ﵁. Thus he said." I said: this "some" is unknown to me, so his contradiction to the narration of Ibn ʿUlayyah, which agrees with the narration of al-Mughīrah ibn Muslim from the narration of al-Khazzāz from him, and their agreement on this narration makes it outweigh the narration of Abū Kurayb from Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān from al-Mughīrah from Yūnus from al-Ḥasan from Abū Hurayrah. Otherwise, al-Ḥasan from Abū Hurayrah is considered disconnected, unlike Saʿīd al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah, which is connected, and based on this, the ḥadīth has a sound isnād, and Allāh knows best. Al-Bayhaqī has also narrated it in "al-Shuʿab" from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ form with the wording: "Allāh loves a servant who is generous when he sells, generous when he buys, generous when he settles, and generous when he demands settlement." However, it has a very weak isnād, as it contains several defects, the most significant being al-Wāqidī, as he is accused of lying, and the rest of the defects can be reviewed if you wish in "Fayḍ al-Qadīr."