I went with my father, while I was still a boy, to the Prophet ﷺ. My father said to him, "I am a physician. Show me this growth on your back."The Prophet ﷺ asked, "What would you do with it?"My father replied, "I would cut it off."The Prophet ﷺ said, "You are not its physician. Rather, you are a gentle companion to its true physician, the one who placed it there." Another narrator said, "the one who created it."
حدثنا عبد الله حدثنا أبو بكر بن أبي شيبة حدثنا حسين بن علي عن ابن أبجر عن إياد بن لقيط
انطلقت مع أبي وأنا غلام إلى النبي ﷺ قال فقال له أبي إني رجل طبيب فأرني هذه السلعة التي بظهرك قال وما تصنع بها قال أقطعها قال لست بطبيب ولكنك رفيق طبيبها الذي وضعها وقال غيره الذي خلقها
Its chain of transmission is sahih. Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba is Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim, and he is trustworthy and authoritative, a peer of Imam Ahmad, slightly older than him. Ahmad and his son Abdullah both narrate from him. What is established in the three original manuscripts here is that Qatii says, "Abdullah told us, my father told me," which would make the hadith a narration of Imam Ahmad from Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba. However, in the margin of manuscript M there is a note stating, "his saying, 'my father told me,' is missing from a sahih copy." If this copy proves correct, the hadith would be among the additions of Abdullah, but we have not been able to confirm this with certainty, so we have given preference to what is established in the three original manuscripts. Either way, the chain of transmission is sahih, whether it is the narration of Abdullah from his father from Abu Bakr, or the narration of Abdullah from him directly.Husayn bin Ali is Jufi Kufi, whose reliability was established earlier at 1284, and we add here that Bukhari gave his biography in al-Kabir 2/1/378, and Ibn Abu Hatim in al-Jarh wal-Tadil 1/2/55-56.Ibn Abjar is Abdul-Malik bin Saeed bin Hayan bin Abjar, whose biography has already appeared at 4623, 7106. The hadith will come at length at 17565, narrated from Sufyan bin Uyayna from Ibn Abjar. Shafii also narrated it at length in al-Umm 6:4, from Ibn Uyayna, and it is found in Musnad Shafii arranged by Shaykh Abid Sindi 2:89, number 225. Bayhaqi narrated it in Sunan al-Kubra 8:27, by way of Shafii, with this chain of transmission. Abu Dawud narrated it at 4207, 4/138 of Awn al-Mabud, in abridged form, similarly to what is here, from Muhammad bin Ala from Ibn Idris, who is Abdullah bin Idris Awdi, from Ibn Abjar.As for his statement, "but you are a rafiq," it is spelled with a fa and ends with a qaf. Ibn Athir said that it means you are gentle and tender with the sick person, while it is Allah who cures and heals him.