Sunan Abu Dawud - سنن أبي داود
10. The Book of Lost and Found Items - كتاب اللقطة
1) Chapter: Finds
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Shu’bah through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.The version goes :
He said : Make it known for a year.He said this three times.He said: I do not know whether he said “for a year” or “for three years”.
1) باب
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ شُعْبَةَ، بِمَعْنَاهُ قَالَ . وَقَالَ ثَلاَثَ مِرَارٍ قَالَ فَلاَ أَدْرِي قَالَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ فِي سَنَةٍ أَوْ فِي ثَلاَثِ سِنِينَ . " عَرِّفْهَا حَوْلاً "
حكم: صحيح (الألباني)