Azami 11516

Nasai (4080) and Ahmad (19267) both narrated it from the hadith of Abu Muawiya, who said, Amash narrated to us, from Yazid bin Hayan, from Zayd bin Arqam, and he mentioned it. Hakim graded it sahih (4/360-361), but he narrated it through the route of Jareer, from Amash, from Thumamah bin Uqbah Muhallami, from Zayd bin Arqam, who said, "There was a man who used to visit the Prophet ﷺ, and a man bewitched him. He tied a knot for him, then placed it and threw it into the well of a man from the Ansar. Then two angels came to visit him. One of them sat by his head and the other sat by his feet. One of them said, 'Do you know what his ailment is?' He said, 'So-and-so, the one who used to visit him, tied a knot for him and threw it into the well of so-and-so the Ansari. If he were to send a man to retrieve the knot from him...'" He said, "He found the water had turned yellow." He said, "He took the knot and untied it." He said, "The man continued afterward to visit the Prophet ﷺ, but he never mentioned anything about it to him, nor did he rebuke him."Hakim said, "This is a hadith that is sahih according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs, though they did not include it." Dhahabi followed up on this, saying, "They did not include anything from Thumamah bin Uqbah in their books, and he is truthful (saduq)."I say, despite the soundness of its chain, there are some discrepancies in its wording, which may go back to the narration of the hadith by meaning, or to abridgment and elaboration. Yazid bin Hayan is Taymi, the Kufan, a trustworthy narrator among the men of the Sahih. He was corroborated by Thumamah bin Uqbah Muhallami, who is not among the men of the Sahih, but he too is trustworthy, except that he differed in the wording of the hadith. What Yazid bin Hayan narrated agrees with what is found in the Sahih.His statement, "a man from the Jews," means from the allies of the Jews, as is explicitly stated in Sahih Bukhari.