He passed by a group of people, and they came to him saying, "You have come from that man with good. Can you treat this man of ours with ruqyah?" They brought him a deranged man bound in chains. He recited al-Fatihah over him for three days, morning and evening, and each time he completed it, he would gather his saliva and spit. The man recovered as though he had been released from a tether. They gave him something in payment, and he went to the Prophet ﷺ and told him about it.The Prophet ﷺ said, "Eat. By my life, others eat from false ruqyah, but you have eaten from a true ruqyah."In another narration, they gave him a hundred sheep.
أنه مر بقوم، فأتوه، فقالوا: إنك جئت من عند هذا الرجل بخير، فارق لنا هذا الرجل. فأتوه برجل معتوه في القيود، فرقاه بأم القرآن ثلاثة أيام غدوة وعشية، وكلما ختمها جمع بزاقه، ثم تفل فكأنما أنشط من عقال، فأعطوه شيئا، فأتى النبي ﷺ، فذكره له، فقال النبي ﷺ: كل، فلعمري لمن أكل برقية باطل لقد أكلت برقية حق. وفي رواية: فأعطوه مائة شاة.
Abu Dawud narrated it (3420, 3896, 3897, 3901), Ibn Majah (6111), and Ahmad (21835), and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (6110), as did Hakim (1/559–560), all of them through routes going back to Amir Shaybi, from Kharija bin Salt, from his uncle, who narrated it. His uncle's name was Alaqa bin Sahar Sulayti, and Sulayt belongs to Banu Tamim.Hakim said, the isnad is sahih. But its isnad is hasan only because of Kharija bin Salt, for no one deemed him trustworthy except Ibn Hibban, and only two narrators transmitted from him. This is why Hafiz said in his Taqrib, "Acceptable," meaning acceptable when corroborated, and I have not found anyone who corroborated him.However, Mizzi transmitted in his Tahdhib, in the biographical entry on Amir Shaybi, the narrator from Kharija bin Salt, from Abu Bakr bin Abu Khaythama, who said, I heard Yahya bin Main say, "When Shaybi narrates from a man and names him, then he is trustworthy and his hadith may be relied upon."