Al-Haythamī likewise deemed it defective on his account in al-Majmaʿ (8/43), and al-Aʿẓamī merely followed him in this. Yet deeming it defective because of Ḥumayd ibn al-Rabīʿ is more warranted, for there is disagreement concerning him, and some have accused him. Refer to Lisān al-Mīzān if you wish. I did not recognize ʿAmr ibn Suwayd. It then became clear to me that this is a scribal corruption, and that the correct name is ʿUmayr ibn Suwayd. Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (2/198) and declared him weak; he cited this hadith through the route of Ḥumayd as well. Al-Dhahabī then remarked: “Ḥumayd has objectionable narrations.”

2093 — “The Seal of Prophethood on his back was a raised piece of flesh.”

Al-Tirmidhī reported it in al-Shamāʾil (p. 40) from Bishr ibn al-Waḍḍāḥ, who said: Abū ʿAqīl al-Dawraqī informed us, from Abū Naḍrah al-ʿAwqī, who said: I asked Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī about the Seal of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he mentioned it. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are reliable and are narrators of Muslim, except for Bishr ibn al-Waḍḍāḥ, who is truthful. Al-ʿAwqī is spelled with an undotted ʿayn, followed by wāw and then qāf; in the original it appears with fāʾ instead, which is a common error.

ʿAttāb al-Bakrī corroborated him, saying: “We used to sit with Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī in Medina, and I asked him about the Seal of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, which was between his shoulder blades. He gestured with his index finger and said: ‘Like this: a raised piece of flesh between his shoulder blades, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.’” Aḥmad reported it in his Musnad (3/69) from Abū Laylā ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maysarah al-Khurāsānī, from ʿAttāb al-Bakrī. I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned ʿAttāb al-Bakrī (3/2/12) without recording either criticism or accreditation concerning him. Ibn Ḥajar did not mention him in al-Taʿjīl, despite his meeting its criteria.