Numan bin Bashir delivered a sermon and said, "Allah is more delighted by the repentance of His servant than a man who loaded his provisions and water-skins onto his camel, then set out until he was in a barren land. The midday heat overtook him, so he dismounted and took his nap beneath a tree. Sleep overcame him, and his camel slipped away.When he woke, he ran up one rise but saw nothing. He ran up a second rise but saw nothing. He ran up a third rise but saw nothing. So he came back to the spot where he had been napping, and while he was sitting there, suddenly his camel came walking up to him until it placed its halter in his hand.Allah is more delighted by the repentance of His servant than this man was when he found his camel just as it had been."
خطب النعمان بن بشير، فقال: الله أشد فرحا بتوبة عبده من رجل حمل زاده ومزاده على بعير، ثم سار حتى كان بفلاة من الأرض، فأدركته القائلة، فنزل، فقال تحت شجرة، فغلبته عينه، وانسل بعيره، فاستيقظ فسعى شرفا فلم ير شيئا، ثم سعى شرفا ثانيا فلم ير شيئا، ثم سعى شرفا ثالثا فلم ير شيئا، فأقبل حتى أتى مكانه الذي قال فيه، فبينما هو قاعد إذ جاءه بعيره يمشي، حتى وضع خطامه في يده، فلله أشد فرحا بتوبة العبد من هذا حين وجد بعيره على حاله.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Repentance (2745) from Ubaydullah bin Muaz Anbari, who said, my father narrated to us, Abu Yunus narrated to us, from Simak, who said, Numan bin Bashir gave a sermon, and he mentioned it.He said, Simak said, "Shaybi claimed that Numan traced this hadith back to the Prophet ﷺ, but as for me, I did not hear him say that."I say, even though Muslim reported it as stopped at the companion, Simak's statement that Shaybi used to trace it back to the Prophet strengthens the case for it being a raised hadith. The well-known position among the scholars of hadith is that when a hadith does not fall within the scope of personal reasoning, it carries the ruling of a raised hadith. That is why Muslim included it in his Sahih.