Later on, his son recited the following lines in the presence of the Caliph ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and everyone there approved, raising no objection:

“I am the son of the man whose eye flowed down his cheek—69—
and by the Chosen One’s own palm it was restored, perfectly restored!”

Had this event not been well known among the Successors (tābiʿīn), they would not have endorsed the verse, for they had received the report only from the Companions. Moreover, in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī it is related from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib who said:

“The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, dispatched a group of the Anṣār to Abū Rāfiʿ the Jew…”