I said: This is a sound isnād according to the criteria of Muslim, and Abū Dāwūd al-Ḥaḍarī's name is ʿUmar ibn Saʿd. Abū Nuʿaym also followed him from Sufyān with it, except that he did not mention the sitting cross-legged. It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (2/249/1885). It was also recorded by Muslim and others through different chains from Simāk with various wordings and additions, without the sitting cross-legged, and it is included in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (1171), and this "Silsilah" (434). There is supporting evidence for the sitting cross-legged from the ḥadīth of Ḥanẓalah ibn Ḥudhaym who said: I came to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and I saw him sitting cross-legged. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (1179) and through his route by al-Mizzī in "al-Tahdhīb" (7/435) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (4/15/3498) through the route of Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr who said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Qurashī narrated to us, saying: Dhiyāl ibn ʿUbayd ibn Ḥanẓalah narrated to me: My grandfather Ḥanẓalah ibn Ḥudhaym narrated to me. I said: This is a good isnād in itself at least, due to what is known about Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān in the previous ḥadīth, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.

- "No, no, no, the charity is five, or else ten, or else fifteen, or else twenty, or else twenty-five, or else thirty, or else thirty-five, and if it increases, then forty." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/67-68): Abū Saʿīd, the client of Banū Hāshim, narrated to us: Dhiyāl ibn