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3340. It was narrated that Ibn 'Umar said: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: The (standard) weight is the weight of the people of Makkah, and the (standard) measure is the measure of the people of Al-Madinah." (Da'if)
Abū Dāwūd said: And this is how Al-Firyābī and Abū Ahmad reported it from Sufyān, and they agreed on the (wording of the) text. While Abū Ahmad said: "From Ibn
‘Abbās’ instead of: ‘Ibn ‘Umar.’[1] Al-Walīd bin Muslim reported it from Hanzalah so he said (in it): “The weight of Al-Madīnah and the measure of Makkah.”[2]
Abū Dāwūd said: And there is a disagreement in the text of the narration of Mālik bin Dīnār, from ‘Aṭā’, from the Prophet ﷺ regarding this.[3]
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Commentary
Al-Madīnah was an agricultural land where people carried out business operations through dry volume measurements. Hence, their pattern became the standard unit for measuring the quantities of their goods. Makkah, on the other hand, was the center of trade for various types of commodities, including valuable commodities like gold, silver, spices and perfume. These were bought and sold through measures of weight. Hence the measures in Makkah were accepted as standard units for gauging or estimating the weight of commodities.
