Uzaynah al-Ṭāʾī (1) related—through Thawr ibn Yazīd, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal—who said:

While the Prophet ﷺ was at Khaybar, a black donkey came and halted in front of him. He ﷺ asked, “Who are you?” It answered, “I am ʿAmr ibn so-and-so. We were seven brothers; every one of us was ridden by a prophet, and I am the youngest. I was assigned to you. Later a man from the Jews came to own me, and whenever I remembered you I would stumble beneath him, so he would beat me severely.”

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Then you are Yaʿfūr.”

This ḥadīth is exceedingly strange.

[Here ends, by our division, the fifth volume of al-Bidāyah wa’l-Nihāyah by the imām, ḥadīth master, and historian Ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī. Praise be to Allah, through whose favor righteous deeds are completed. The sixth volume, on the Prophet’s characteristics and related topics, follows.]