The Sufficient (Vol 5) · Hadith 516 (#Ḥadīth #2)

2- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ عَنْ هُذَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ إِذَا اشْتَرَيْتَ جَارِيَةً فَقُلِ اللهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَشِيرُكَ وَأَسْتَخِيرُكَ.

2. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Faddal from Tha’labah ibn Maymun from Hudhayl who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah , has said, ‘When you want to buy a slave-girl say this, ‘O Allah, I consult You and pray to You to grant me what is good.’”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).