Saʿd with a party of men from Palestine. He was nicknamed “peerless,” so we sat before him on a large stone platform in his courtyard. He said, “Boy, bring the horses in!”
In the courtyard there was a stone trough (1).
He led the horses in, whereupon ʿUmayr asked, “Where is the mare?”
The boy replied, “She is mangy; blood is dripping from her.”
He said, “Bring her in.”
One of the men remarked, “Then all the horses will catch the mange.”
ʿUmayr replied, “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘There is no contagion, no augury, and no hāmmah. Have you not seen a camel that roams the desert, yet the next morning there appears on its chest—or on its flank—a spot that was not there; so who infected the first one?’ (2)”
The same narration was transmitted by Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl and al-Tabūdhakī from Ḥammād.
ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Qaddāḥ said: ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd did not witness any of the major campaigns. He is the one who reported to the Prophet ﷺ the words of Julās ibn Suwayd; he had been an orphan in Julās’ care. ʿUmar appointed him governor of Ḥimṣ, and he was among the ascetics.
Ibn Saʿd erred when he stated that his name was ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbayd (3).
Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: ʿUmayr ibn Saʿd ibn Shuhayd al-Anṣārī was a Companion.
Among those who narrated from him was Abū Ṭalḥah al-Khawlānī in a mursal report; this was my father’s view (4).