A man from Banū ʿĀmir came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him—and he used to treat and heal people—and said, “O Muhammad, you say certain things; would you like me to treat you?” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then called him to Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and said: … He then mentioned the hadith. The ʿĀmirī said, “By Allah, I shall never accuse you of lying about anything you say.” He then said, “O clan of Banū Ṣaʿṣaʿah! By Allah, I shall never disbelieve anything he says.”

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy and are among the narrators of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

Al-Aʿmash also had another shaykh for this report. He narrated it from Abū Ẓabyān, from Ibn ʿAbbās, with similar wording, but at its end he said:

The ʿĀmirī said, “O clan of Banū ʿĀmir! I have never seen a man more skilled in sorcery than the one I saw today!”

It was recorded by al-Dārimī (1/13), Aḥmad (1/223), and al-Bayhaqī as well (6/15–16). I say: Its chain of transmission is also authentic.

Sammāk corroborated him from Abū Ẓabyān with the same report, except that he said: “The Bedouin embraced Islam.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh (2/1/3), and from him by al-Tirmidhī (3632), Ibn Saʿd (1/182), al-Ḥākim (2/620), and, through his route, al-Bayhaqī as well (6/15), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (12/110/12622), through the narration of Sharīk from him. Al-Tirmidhī said:

“An authentic, good hadith!”

Al-Ḥākim said:

“Authentic according to Muslim’s criteria!” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

That is what they both said. Yet Sharīk—namely, Ibn ʿAbd Allāh the judge—was cited by Muslim only as a corroborating narrator, despite his weakness. The annotator of Musnad Abī Yaʿlā noticed this, but he overlooked