When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his companions arrived, the fever of Yathrib had weakened them.The polytheists said, "A people are coming to you whom the fever has weakened."Allah informed the Prophet ﷺ of what they had said, so he ordered his companions to walk briskly. The polytheists sat at the side of the Hijr watching them, and the companions walked briskly between the two corners.The polytheists said, "These are the ones you claim the fever has weakened? They are stronger than such and such," mentioning what they said.Ibn Abbas said, "Nothing prevented him from ordering them to walk briskly through all the rounds except his concern to spare them."I heard Hammad narrate it from Saeed bin Jubayr from Ibn Abbas, or from Abdullah from Saeed bin Jubayr, with no doubt about it from him.
حدثنا عفان حدثنا حماد بن زيد حدثنا أيوب عن سعيد بن جبير
قدم رسول الله ﷺ وأصحابه وقد وهنتهم حمى يثرب قال فقال المشركون إنه يقدم عليكم قوم قد وهنتهم الحمى قال فأطلع الله النبي ﷺ على ذلك فأمر أصحابه أن يرملوا وقعد المشركون ناحية الحجر ينظرون إليهم فرملوا ومشوا ما بين الركنين قال فقال المشركون هؤلاء الذين تزعمون أن الحمى وهنتهم هؤلاء أقوى من كذا وكذا ذكروا قولهم قال ابن عباس فلم يمنعه أن يأمرهم أن يرملوا الأشواط كلها إلا إبقاء عليهم وقد سمعت حمادا يحدثه عن سعيد بن جبير عن ابن عباس أو عن عبد الله عن سعيد بن جبير لا شك فيه عنه
Its isnad is sahih. Muslim also related it, 1:359, from Abu Rabi Zahrani, from Hammad bin Zayd. See also 2029, 2077, 2220, 2305.As for Affan's statement at the end, "I heard Hammad, etc.," this reflects his own uncertainty about what he heard from Hammad, whether it was from Ayub from Saeed bin Jubayr directly, or from Ayub from Abdullah bin Saeed bin Jubayr from his father. This uncertainty is not problematic, because it is merely a shift from one trustworthy narrator to another trustworthy narrator. That is why Affan said afterward, "There is no doubt about it from him," meaning that the hadith is definitely from Saeed, regardless of whether Ayub heard it from him directly or from his son Abdullah.This uncertainty belongs to Affan alone. Abu Rabi Zahrani, the teacher of Muslim, had no such doubt, and related it from Hammad bin Zayd, from Ayub, from Saeed bin Jubayr.As for Abdullah bin Saeed bin Jubayr, he is trustworthy and reliable, as Nasai stated. Tirmidhi also related from Ayub, who said, "They used to consider him more excellent than his father."