Ibn Abī al-Dunyā next relates:

Abū Bilāl told us, Qāsim ibn ʿAbd Allāh told us, from ʿAnbasah ibn Saʿīd—who was a scholar—who said:

“When Abū Mūsā found Daniel, he discovered with him a codex, a jar filled with grease, several silver dirhams, and Daniel’s ring. Abū Mūsā wrote to ʿUmar to inform him, and ʿUmar replied: ‘Send the codex to us. As for the grease, forward some of it here and tell the Muslims with you to seek cure by means of it. Distribute the dirhams among them, and as for the ring, we have awarded it to you as your share.’

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā also transmits through other chains that when Abū Mūsā was told the body was that of Daniel, he embraced, hugged, and kissed him. He then wrote to ʿUmar explaining the matter and stating that he had found with Daniel nearly ten thousand dirhams. People would come to borrow from that sum: if they repaid it nothing happened to them, but if they failed to do so they would fall ill. He also found a wooden chest. ʿUmar instructed that Daniel be washed with water and lotus leaves, shrouded, buried, and that his grave be concealed so that no one would know its location. He further ordered that the money be sent to the public treasury, that the chest be brought to him, and that Abū Mūsā be granted the ring.

It is reported from Abū Mūsā that he commanded four prisoners of war to dam a river, dig a grave in its midst, and there bury Daniel. When they had finished, the four prisoners were executed so that no one knew the site of the grave except Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, may Allah be pleased with him.

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā further said: Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh told me, Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Saraḥ told us, Ibn Wahb told us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād, from his father, who said:

“I saw on the hand of Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā al-Ashʿarī a ring whose gem was engraved with two lions and, between them, a man whom the lions were licking. Abū Burdah said, ‘This is the ring of that deceased man whom the people of this town claim to be Daniel; Abū Mūsā took it on the day he buried him.’

Abū Burdah continued: ‘Abū Mūsā asked the scholars of that village about the engraving. They said: A king under whose rule Daniel lived was told by astrologers and scholars, “On such-and-such a night a boy will be born who will destroy your kingdom.” The king swore, “By Allah, no male child born that night shall remain alive unless I kill him.” They seized Daniel and threw him into a lions’ lair, but the lion and the lioness spent the night licking him and did him no harm. His mother came and found them licking him, and by that means Allah saved him until he attained his later stature.

‘For this reason Daniel had the image of himself and the two lions licking him engraved on the stone of his ring, so that he would never forget Allah’s favor to him.’”

The chain of transmission is sound.