I came to the Prophet ﷺ with my son, and the Prophet ﷺ showed himself to me. I said to my son, "This is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." My son began to tremble out of awe for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.I said to him, "Prophet of Allah, I am a physician from a family of physicians. Show me your back. If it is a tumor, I will lance it, and if it is something else, I will inform you, for there is no one more skilled at treating a wound or an abscess than I am."He replied, "Its physician is Allah."He was wearing two green garments, and his hair, which had begun to turn gray, had a reddish tinge in its grayness.He asked, "Is this your son?"I said, "Yes, by the Lord of the Kaabah."He asked, "Truly your own son?"I said, "I bear witness to it."He said, "Then he will not bring guilt upon you, nor will you bring guilt upon him."
حدثنا عبد الله حدثنا سعيد بن أبي الربيع السمان حدثنا أبو عوانة عن عبد الملك بن عمير عن إياد بن لقيط العجلي
أتيت النبي ﷺ ومعي ابني فأرانيه إياه فقلت لابني هذا رسول الله ﷺ فأخذته الرعدة هيبة لرسول الله ﷺ فقلت له يا نبي الله إني رجل طبيب من أهل بيت أطباء فأرني ظهرك فإن تكن سلعة أبطها وإن تك غير ذلك أخبرتك فإنه ليس من إنسان أعلم بجرح أو خراج مني قال طبيبها الله وعليه بردان أخضران له شعر قد علاه المشيب وشيبه أحمر فقال ابنك هذا قلت إي ورب الكعبة قال ابن نفسك قلت أشهد به قال فإنه لا يجني عليك ولا تجني عليه
Its chain of transmission is sahih, though there is an error in its wording, which we explained in detail earlier in hadith 7106, and we will point to it again below, Allah willing. Saeed bin Abu Rabi Samman is Saeed bin Ashath, his father's name being Ashath and his kunya Abu Rabi. In [manuscript] H it appears as "Saeed bin Rabi," which is an error, which we corrected from K and M and from biographical references. This Saeed is trustworthy, and he is discussed in Al-Ikmal and Al-Taajil, and in Al-Jarh wal-Tadil 1/2/5. Ibn Abu Hatim reported from Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal, who said, "I heard my father mention Ibn Abu Rabi Samman, and he said, 'I regard him as nothing but truthful.'" And in Al-Taajil, Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators and said, "His kunya is Abu Bakr, and his hadith is considered credible apart from his narration from his father."Bukhari referred to this hadith in Al-Kabir, 1/2/294, in the biographical entry on Rifa bin Yathribi, in his customary concise manner, transmitting it through Yahya, who is Ibn Hammad Shaybani, brother-in-law of Abu Awana, from Abu Awana, with this chain going back to Abu Rimtha, who said, "I came to the Prophet ﷺ with my son." Ibn Saad narrated it at length in Al-Tabaqat 1/2/132–133, through Ubaydullah bin Amr, who is Al-Jazari Al-Raqqi, from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr.Nasai narrated part of it, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to us wearing two green garments," 2:298, through Jareer bin Hazim from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr. Hakim narrated part of it in Al-Mustadrak, "I came to the Prophet ﷺ, and he was wearing two green cloaks, and he had hair that had gone gray, his gray being reddish, dyed with henna," 2:607, through Abu Hamza, who is Al-Sukkari Muhammad bin Maymun, from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, and he said, "A hadith sahih in chain, though the two of them [Bukhari and Muslim] did not include it," and Dhahabi agreed with him.The error in it originates from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, in his making Abu Rimtha the elder one and his son the one who was with him. In fact, the wording in his own narration points to its error, in his saying, "and my son was with me, so I showed him to him," and so on, for this is a clearly inverted and disordered wording, and it appears this way in all three source manuscripts. A marginal note was written in M stating the following, "It appears thus, 'so I showed him to him,' in two of the manuscripts, with a correction mark over it in one of them, while in another manuscript it reads 'so I showed him,' which agrees with his saying afterward, 'he said, Do you know who this is?'" Now if the matter were simply a difference between manuscripts at this one point, it would be a minor matter, attributable perhaps to an error by one of the copyists. But all the lengthy narrations we have seen transmitted by Abdul-Malik bin Umayr contain this same claim, that Abu Rimtha had his son with him, as we explained in detail under 7106.His saying "abitha" means "I lance it," for one says "batta al-jurh" when he lances a wound, and "battatu al-qurha" means I lanced the sore. And his saying "bi-jurh aw kharaj," "jurh" [wound] is well known, spelled with jim first and a plain ha at the end, and it appeared in H as "yakhruju," with kha and jim, which is a printing corruption that we corrected from K and M. And "kharaj" is with a dotted kha and a light ra, meaning a swelling that erupts on the body by itself. Common people pronounce it with a doubled ra, which is an error.This hadith is among the additions of Abdullah bin Ahmad. Above its beginning in M, the mark "sahih" was written three times, indicating this, and indicating that the mention of Abdullah's narration from his father was not omitted from its chain of transmission.