It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (5196 and 6547) and also by Muslim, Ibn Ḥibbān (7413), and Aḥmad (5/205 and 209). The ḥadīth was also narrated from Ibn ʿAmr with a weak isnād containing an objectionable phrase: "the rich and the women," and for this reason, I included it in the other book (2800).

"The best charity is the loan of a milking camel, which goes out in the morning with a full udder and returns in the evening with a full udder." It was narrated by al-Khaṭṭābī in "Gharīb al-Ḥadīth" (106/2) from al-Ḥumaydī: Sufyān informed us, Abū al-Zanād informed us from al-Aʿraj from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ form, and he said: "al-Ḥumaydī said: (al-ʿasāʾ) is the large cup." Al-Khaṭṭābī said: "I have not heard it except in this ḥadīth, and al-Ḥumaydī is one of the people of language. Ibn al-Mubārak narrated it saying: 'It goes out with a large cup, and returns with a large cup,' and this was a witness to al-Ḥumaydī's statement, because al-rifd is the large cup. The first of the cups is al-ghumr, which does not reach satiation, then al-qaʿb, which is enough for one man, then al-qadaḥ, which suffices two or three, then al-ʿas, which a group drinks from, then al-rifd, which is larger, then al-saḥn, which is larger, then al-taban, which is the largest, and then larger than that is al-jinbah, made from the side of a camel." And so it is in the printed version of "al-Gharīb" (1/507-508), and Ibn al-Athīr quoted from it up to his saying: "one of the people of language," and he said afterwards: "It was narrated by Abū Khaythamah, then he said: or he said: 'with large cups' would have been better, so in this case it would be the plural of (al-ʿas), with the hamzah replacing the sīn." The ḥadīth is in "Musnad al-Ḥumaydī" (1061) with this context, except that it occurred as: "with a large cup" in both instances, and the commentator noted that the original was (nafs)