Sahih Muslim 1524
صحيح مسلم#1524Sahihوَحَدَّثَنَاهُ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ " مَنِ اشْتَرَى مِنَ الْغَنَمِ فَهُوَ بِالْخِيَارِ " .
Ayyub narrated with the same chain of transmitters but with this change of words:" He who buys a goat has the option
Scholarly Authentication
The label above is the grade most of these scholars gave, each scholar counted once — one dissenting opinion no longer speaks for all of them. If any scholar calls a narration fabricated, that verdict is shown instead, whatever the others say. When they judged only its chain of narrators (“Isnaad”), the label says “Sound chain”. Each scholar's own wording:
Every narration in Sahih Muslim is accepted as Sahih (authentic) by the established status of the book.
Sahih Muslim 1524 is the standard (Abd al-Baqi) number; this narration is #3834 in the MuslimGPT index.
In-book reference: 21:34