Ahmad 6525

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Yazid bin Abu Habib, his reliability was already established at 785, and we add here that Bukhari mentioned him in Kabir 4/2/336, and in Saghir 149, and Ibn Saad in Tabaqat 7/2/202.Naim, the freedman of Umm Salama, is Naim bin Ajayl, with the hamza pronounced with a "u" sound and the jim with a "a" sound, the Hamdani, the Egyptian. He was a jurist, a trustworthy successor. Bukhari mentioned him in Kabir 4/2/125, and Ibn Saad at 5:219, and Bukhari said, he was from a house of nobility among Hamdan, captivity befell him in the pre-Islamic era, and Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, freed him. He lived to witness Uthman's time. Some scholars have counted him among the companions, which is why Ibn Athir mentioned him in Usud Ghabah 5:7, and the Hafiz in Isabah 6:224, but the more correct view is that he was a senior successor who lived through both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods.This hadith was related by Muslim at 2:275, through the route of Ibn Wahb, from Amr bin Harith, from Yazid bin Abu Habib, from Naim, the freedman of Umm Salama, in an abridged form with similar wording. None of the authors of the six major collections related it through the narration of Naim, the freedman of Umm Salama, except Muslim in his Sahih. However, they did relate its meaning through other routes, such as the wording of the earlier hadith 6490, and the coming hadith 6544.The Hafiz pointed out in Fath al-Bari 6:98 to Muslim's narration through this route, and also attributed it to Saeed bin Mansur in his Sunan. It comes through Muslim's narration from Saeed bin Mansur from Ibn Wahb.I then found the hadith in Majma al-Zawaid 138 in a longer form, close to the wording of the Musnad here, but at its beginning it says, from Nuaym, the freedman of Umm Salama, who said, Ibn Amr set out on pilgrimage, and when he was between Makkah and Madinah he came upon a tree that he recognized, so he sat beneath it, then said, "I saw the Messenger of Allah beneath this tree," and so on, relating it in similar meaning.Haythami said, Abu Yaala related it, and it contains Ibn Ishaq, who is a trustworthy but mudallis narrator, and the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, provided that the freedman of Umm Salama is Naim, which is the correct view, but if he is Nuaym then I do not know who he is.It appears from this narration that the error in it lies in mentioning Nuaym instead of Naim, and in mentioning Ibn Amr instead of Ibn Umar, unless the latter is a mistake made by a copyist or printer. We have also benefited from it in supporting what we will explain regarding tayammum, and the omission of the tree, since it is understood to be intended from the rest of the wording, and praise be to Allah.As for his statement "tayammum," he means to head toward or aim for, based on the linguistic meaning of tayammum, as indicated by the rest of the wording.And his statement, "he looked until, when it became clear, he sat beneath it," this involves the omission of the object of "he aimed for," which is the tree mentioned afterward in Ibn Amr's statement, "I saw the Messenger of Allah beneath this tree," as if he had said, "he aimed for a tree, and when it became clearly visible, he sat beneath it."Such omission is common in the Arabic language, as in the words of the Almighty, "until it disappeared behind the veil" [Sad 38:32], meaning the sun, though it was not mentioned before or after in the verse. See also 6602.