He—may Allah have mercy on him—also transmitted it through the chain of Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, from Muḥammad ibn Taym, from Muḥammad ibn Khalīfah, from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, from his father, who said:
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said to Khuraym ibn Fātik, “Relate to me a report that will delight me.” He then repeated the story exactly as in the first version.
Abū Nuʿaym said: Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us, Abū ʿAbd al-Malik Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Qurashī al-Dimashqī narrated to us, Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the grandson of Shuraḥbīl, narrated to us, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿAmr al-Saybānī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Daylamī, who said:
A man came to Ibn ʿAbbās and said, “We have heard that you speak of Satīḥ and claim that Allah created him in a form unlike anything He created among the children of Adam.”
He replied, “Yes. Allah created Satīḥ al-Ghassānī as flesh upon a wooden pallet—he had no bone or sinew except the skull and the two palms. His legs could be folded up to his collarbone the way a garment is folded, and nothing in him moved except his tongue. When he wished to travel to Mecca, he was carried on his pallet until he was brought there.
Four men of Quraysh came out to meet him: ʿAbd Shams and Hāshim, the two sons of ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy; al-Aḥwaṣ ibn Fihr; and ʿAqīl ibn Abī Waqqāṣ.
They claimed a lineage other than their own, saying, “We are people from Jumah. We have come to you because news of your arrival reached us, and we deemed it your right and our duty to visit you.”
ʿAqīl offered him an Indian sword-blade and a Rudaynī spear-shaft, placing them at the door of the Sacred House to see whether Satīḥ would notice them or not.
He said, “O ʿAqīl, give me your hand.” ʿAqīl extended his hand to him, and Satīḥ said: