from him. Likewise, it was narrated by al-Ḥākim (2/285) and from him by al-Bayhaqī (4/191), but in his narration, (al-Aʿmash) was omitted, and he added at the end: "He said: He permitted them." Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic isnād." Al-Dhahabī said: "(Kh M)." meaning that it is according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs, and it is as he said regarding the narration of Abū ʿUbayd and Ibn Jarīr, otherwise, in the isnād of al-Ḥākim, there is Muḥammad ibn Ghālib, about whom there is some discussion, and he is not among the narrators of the two Shaykhs, and perhaps the omission mentioned is from him. The ḥadīth is supported by what was extracted by the two Shaykhs and others from the ḥadīth of Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr, who said: My mother came to me while she was a polytheist during the time of Quraysh when they had a treaty, so I asked the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) for a ruling, and I said: O Messenger of Allāh! My mother has come to me and she is desiring, should I maintain ties with my mother? (In another wording: Should I give her?) He said: "Yes, maintain ties with your mother." It is recorded in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (1468) and the other wording is from al-Bayhaqī (4/191), and he titled it and the ḥadīth of the chapter by saying: "Chapter of Voluntary Charity to a Polytheist and to One Whose Actions Are Not Praiseworthy." This is regarding voluntary charity, but as for the obligatory charity, it is not permissible for non-Muslims due to the well-known ḥadīth of Muʿādh: "It is taken from their rich and given back to their poor." Agreed upon, and it is recorded in the previous source under number (1412), and more extensively in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (782).