—“How about a rematch?” The Prophet ﷺ asked, “What will you stake this time?” He replied, “Another one,” and he repeated that several times. Then he said, “O Muhammad, by Allah, no one has ever made my side touch the ground, and you will not be the one to throw me.” He thereupon embraced Islam, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned his sheep to him.

Al-Bayhaqi (1) remarked, “This is a good mursal report, and it has also come down through another connected chain.”

Abu Shaykh likewise records in his book al-Sabaq: “Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī narrated to us, Ibn al-Muqriʾ narrated to us, my father narrated to us—(2) Hammad—from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr,” and then he cited the same incident (3). This isnād is good and uninterrupted.

He also said: “Abū Bakr al-Jārūdī narrated to us, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr narrated to us, Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Yazīd ibn Rukānah, who said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was at al-Bathāʾ when Rukānah passed by him …’ ”

Our teacher (4) said, “He is Rukānah ibn ʿAbd Yazīd.” And Saʿīd ibn Jubayr did not