They came together, and he relieved himself. He then said, “Go and tell them to separate,” and went on.

When he returned, he passed by the boy, who was playing with the other children. His mother had prepared six rams for him and presented him with two rams as a gift. She said, “Not a trace of the madness has returned to him.” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ... and he mentioned it.

I say: This chain of transmission is weak. Sharik—who is Sharik ibn Abd Allah al-Nakha'i—is not strong because of his poor retention.

And Umar ibn Abd Allah ibn Ya'la is weak, as stated in al-Taqrib.

I say: His father, Abd Allah, is likewise. Ibn Hibban said in Weak Narrators (2/25):

“I do not consider it acceptable to use his report as evidence when he alone narrates it, because of the many rejected narrations in his transmission. Moreover, his son is also very weak, so I do not know whether the problem in it comes from him or from his father!”

Al-Uqayli said in Weak Narrators (2/319):

“There is some question concerning him.”

He then cited the hadith through Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq, from Abd Allah ibn Ya'la, who said: “My father related to me ...”

I say: He related part of the first account in roughly similar terms, and said:

“And he mentioned the hadith; it is narrated through a sounder route than this.”

I say: Ahmad (4/170–173), al-Tabarani, no. 680, and al-Bayhaqi (6/20–24) recorded it through other routes from Ya'la. One of them is found in al-Hakim (2/617–618), from