“Put it back where you took it from.” It was narrated by Muslim, Abu ‘Awanah, and Ibn Hibban, and is cited in Sahih Abi Dawud (2446).

2904 — “The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, spat on the leg of ‘Amr ibn Mu‘adh when it was severed, and it healed.”

It was recorded by Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (8/151/6475—al-Ihsan) and by Abu Nu‘aym in al-Ma‘rifah (2/94/1), through the route of al-Husayn ibn Hurayth, who said: ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Waqid narrated to us; he said: My father narrated to me; he said: ‘Abdullah ibn Buraydah narrated to me; he said: I heard my father say—then he mentioned it.

I say: This chain of transmission is authentic—or, at the very least, good—and it meets Muslim’s criterion. There is some criticism concerning certain narrators in it, but it is not detrimental. This is one of the many hadiths in which ‘Abdullah ibn Buraydah explicitly stated that he heard from his father. Thus, the two Shaykhs relied upon his narration from his father and included it in the two Sahih collections. This is an explicit refutation of the claim made by one of the contemporaries that neither he nor his brother Sulayman heard from their father. I have set out a detailed response to him and invalidated his claim in the forthcoming hadith, no. 2914, in a manner not to be found elsewhere. So praise be to Allah, by Whose favor righteous deeds are completed.

Al-Hafiz also attributed this hadith in al-Isabah to al-Diya al-Maqdisi in al-Ahadith al-Mukhtarah.