He passed by the Prophet ﷺ, who had just bought a horse from an Arabi. The Arabi denied the sale, saying, "I did not sell it to you."The Prophet ﷺ said, "You did sell it to me."Khuzayma bin Thabit then passed by them and heard their exchange, so he said, "I bear witness that you sold it to him."The Prophet ﷺ said to him, "How do you know this when you were not present with us?"He replied, "We have testified to what is greater than this."So the Prophet ﷺ accepted his testimony as equal to the testimony of two men, and this remained the case until Khuzayma died.
إنه مر على النبي ﷺ وقد اشترى فرسا من أعرابي فجحده الأعرابي البيع، فقال: لم أبعك، فقال النبي ﷺ: قد بعتني، فمر عليهم خزيمة بن ثابت رضي الله عنه فسمع قولهما، فقال: أنا أشهد أنك بعت، فقال له النبي ﷺ: وما علمك بذلك ولم تشهدنا؟ فقال: قد شهدنا على ما هو أعظم من ذلك، فأجاز النبي ﷺ شهادته بشهادة رجلين حتى مات خزيمة.
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Ibn Abu Umar related it in his Musnad, as found in Matalib Aliyah (4019), from Husayn Jufi (he is Ibn Ali bin Walid Kufi), from Zaida, who said, our teacher Abu Farwa Juhani narrated to us, from Abdul-Rahman bin Abu Layla, from Khuzayma bin Thabit, who said, and then he related it.Its chain of transmission is hasan because of Abu Farwa Juhani (his name is Muslim bin Salim Kufi), for he is hasan al-hadith. The Prophet ﷺ made the testimony of Khuzayma bin Thabit equal to the testimony of two men, unlike anyone else, because of the reason mentioned, and no one else can be measured by this ruling.