Sahih Muslim Book 27, Hadith 26

You asked me for one hundred dirhams and I am the son of Hatim; by Allah, I will not give you. But then he said: (I would have done that) if I had not heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) say: He who takes an oath, but then finds something better than that, should do that which is better.

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This hadith is reported on the authority of Adi b. Hatim through another chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim Book 27, Hadith 25


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I heard 'Adi b. Hatim say that a person asked that and then narrated (the hadith) like one (mentioned above), but he made this addition:" Here are four hundred (dirhams) for you out of my gift."

Sahih Muslim Book 27, Hadith 27