Another chain from him­:

Al-Bayhaqī (1) narrates—through al-Ḥākim and others—from al-Aṣamm: ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad ad-Dūrī related to us, Ḥamdān of Iṣfahān related to us, Sharīk related to us, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿlā ibn Murrah, from his father, from his grandfather, who said:

“I witnessed from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ three things that no one before me had seen. I was with him on the road to Mecca when he passed by a woman whose son was afflicted by a touch; never had I seen a touch more severe. She said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, this is my son as you see.’ He replied, ‘If you wish, I will supplicate for him,’ and he prayed for him.

“Then he went on until he came upon a camel that had broken loose, its neck outstretched and roaring. He said, ‘Bring me the owner of this camel,’ and the owner was brought. He said, ‘This camel says: I was born among them and they put me to work; now that I have grown old among them they want to slaughter me.’

“Moving on, he saw two trees standing apart and said to me, ‘Go and command the two of them to come together for me.’ They came together, and he relieved himself behind them.

“He continued on; when he returned he passed by the boy, who was now playing with the other children, the affliction having left him. His mother had prepared a ram and sent him two rams as a gift, saying, ‘Nothing of the touch has come back to him.’ The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘There is nothing that does not know I am the Messenger of Allah, except the disbelievers—or the defiantly sinful—from among jinn and human beings.’” (2)

These are several good and diverse chains that, for the well-versed, produce a strong presumption—indeed certainty—that Yaʿlā ibn Murrah related this story in essence. Imām Aḥmad alone has recorded all of it, to the exclusion of the authors of the six canonical books; none of them transmitted any part of it except Ibn Mājah, who narrated—through Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib, from Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym, from (Ibn) Khuthaym, from Yūnus ibn Khabbāb, from Yaʿlā ibn Murrah—that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to relieve himself he would go far away. (3)

The ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym also devoted special attention to the ḥadīth of the camel in his book Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah, citing its various routes from many angles. (4)

He then cited the report of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qurṭ al-Yamānī, who said: “Six she-camels were brought to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and they pressed toward him, each of them eager to be the first.” I have already mentioned this ḥadīth in the section on the Farewell Pilgrimage. (5)