"usury has over seventy doors, the least of which is like one who comes to his mother in Islam, and a dirham of usury is more severe than thirty-five acts of fornication, and the most severe usury, or the most excessive usury, or the most vile usury, is violating the honor of a Muslim, or violating his sanctity." Ibn Abī Ḥātim reported it (1/391/1170) through the chain of Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ al-Nīsābūrī from Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣanʿānī from al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Zubayr from Ṭāwūs from him. He said: "Abū Zurʿah was asked about it and he said: This is a rejected ḥadīth." I said: All its narrators are trustworthy and well-known except for Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣanʿānī, who is Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣanʿānī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "He is obscure." The ḥadīth has a second witness from the narration of Ibn Masʿūd, found in "al-Targhīb" (3/50). In summary, the ḥadīth is authentic and established through its various chains. Then I found a third witness for it from Wahb ibn al-Aswad, the uncle of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, who said: I entered upon the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and he said to me: Shall I inform you of something about usury? I said: Yes, O Messenger of Allāh. He said: "Usury has seventy doors, the least of which is like a man's lying with his mother." It was reported by Ibn Mandah in "al-Maʿrifah" (2/207/1) through the chain of Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAtāb al-Aʿyan who narrated to me from ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah from al-Haytham ibn Ḥumayd from Abū Maʿbad Ḥafṣ ibn Ghaylān from Zayd ibn Aslam from him. I said: This chain's narrators are all trustworthy, so it appears authentic, but I found that al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Iṣābah" (1/45) mentioned it from the narration of Ibn Mandah through the chain of Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Khalaf from ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah from Ṣadaqah al-Samīn from Abū Maʿbad with it, except that he said: from Zayd ibn