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al-Aʿrabi, who transmitted it from Zurara ibn Awfa, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Salam.
Another chain goes back to Abu Ramtha al-Balawi, who said:
“I visited the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—taking a son of mine with me. I presented the boy to him, and when I set eyes on the Prophet I declared, ‘This is indeed the Prophet of Allah.’ ”
Muslim records in his Sahih, and others likewise, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbas that Dimad once came
الْأَعْرَابِيِّ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ بْنِ أَوْفَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ.
وَعَنْ أَبِي رَمْثَةَ الْبَلَوِيِّ قَالَ:
أَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَمَعِي لِيَ ابْنٌ لِي فَأَرَيْتُهُ فَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُهُ قُلْتُ: هَذَا نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ.
وَرَوَى مُسْلِمٌ فِي صَحِيحِهِ، وَغَيْرُهُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ ضِمَادًا قَدِمَ