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What is the authenticity of the hadith: "What is weighed measure for measure if it is of the same kind, and what is measured with a measure is likewise; but if the two kinds differ, then there is no harm in it"? And did Al-Albani say about it that it is 'Hasan' (good) or 'Sahih li ghayrihi' (authentic due to external corroboration)?

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Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani ruled that the Hadith's chain of transmission (Isnad) was weak, and Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī also deemed it weak.

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