Under this same heading is the report that both al-Bukhārī and Muslim relate from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār(1) on the authority of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said:
“We went out on campaign with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and some men from the Emigrants(2) joined him until they became many. Among those Emigrants was a man given to jesting,(3) who struck(4) an Anṣārī. The Anṣārī became extremely angry, and they began to rally one another: the Anṣārī cried, ‘O Anṣār!’ while the Emigrant called out, ‘O Muhājirūn!’
The Prophet ﷺ came out and said, ‘What is this call of the Days of Ignorance? What is the matter with them?’ He was informed(5) that an Emigrant had struck an Anṣārī, whereupon he said, ‘Leave it alone, for it is vile.’(6) Then ʿAbd Allāh(7) ibn Ubayy said—
(1) He is ʿAmr ibn Dinar al-Jumahi, their mawla, Abu Muhammad, nicknamed al-Athram. A scholar of the Tabiʿin, a foremost hadith memorizer and jurist, unanimously deemed trustworthy. Ibn Saʿd states in his Tabaqat: “ʿAmr was reliable, precise, and narrated copiously.” He served as the mufti of Mecca and died in 126 AH. See: Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 8/28–30; Ibn Saʿd, al-Tabaqat al-kubra 5/480.
(2) thaba: that is, he gathered together and came. See Mukhtar al-Sihah, root th-w-b, p. 89.
(3) laʿab: i.e. very given to play.
(4) kasaʿa: meaning he struck the other’s backside with his hand or with the ball of his foot; see al-Qamus al-Muhit, b. ʿAyn, s. Kaf, 3/81.
(5) The printed edition reads fa-akhbaruhu (“so they informed him”), whereas the wording in Sahih al-Bukhari is as given in the text.
(6) The printed edition has muntina (“foul”), while Sahih al-Bukhari records khabithah (“evil”) and Sahih Muslim muntina.
(7) He is the chief of the hypocrites in the Prophet’s era: ʿAbd Allah ibn Ubayy ibn Malik ibn al-Harith ibn ʿUbayd al-Khazraji, Abu al-Habab, commonly called Ibn Salul—Salul being his paternal grandmother. Before Islam he was the leading man of the Khazraj, and they were on the verge of crowning him king. After Badr he outwardly accepted Islam but thereafter schemed against the Muslims: discouraging them from jihad, spreading alarming rumors and mockery, gloating over their trials, and disseminating lies and slander. He died during the Prophet’s lifetime; when the Messenger prayed over him, God prohibited this, revealing, “And never pray over any of them who dies, nor stand at his grave; they disbelieved in God and His Messenger and died as sinners” (Quran 9:84). See al-Aʿlam by al-Zarkali, 4/65.