936 — “The believers are gentle and pliant, like a tame camel: if it is tethered, it follows; if it is driven, it goes along; and if you make it kneel upon a rock, it kneels.”

Al-ʿUqaylī narrated it in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (214), through ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Rawwād, from his father, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, as a report attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: “It has no basis from a trustworthy narrator. The hadiths of ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz are rejected and unpreserved, and he is not among those who reliably transmit hadith.” He then cited two of his hadiths, this being one of them. Abū Ḥātim and others said: “His hadiths are rejected.” Ibn al-Junayd said: “He is worth nothing; he relates hadiths that are lies.”

Note: This is how it appears in al-ʿUqaylī: al-alif; whereas al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr has al-anf, with an n in place of the l. It says in al-Nihāyah: “That is, a camel whose nose has been injured by the nose-peg; because of the pain it suffers, it does not resist its handler. It is also said to mean a docile camel.”

I later found it in Musnad al-Quḍāʿī (4/2/2/1), as it appears in al-Jāmiʿ; he transmitted it through the route mentioned above. It has likewise been related as a mursal report. Ibn al-Mubārak recorded it in al-Zuhd: “Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz informed us, from Makhūl, who said: ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said’”—then he mentioned it.