He used to stand among the people on the Day of Sacrifice, or on the Day of Fitr, and say, "I witnessed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the Farewell Pilgrimage, and he asked, 'What day is this?'The people answered, 'The Day of Sacrifice.'He asked, 'What month is this?'Then he asked, 'What land is this?'They replied, 'This is the sacred town.'He said, 'Indeed, your blood, your property, and your honor are sacred to you, just as the sanctity of this day of yours, in this month of yours, in this land of yours, until the day you meet Him.'Then he said, 'O Allah, have I delivered the message? Let the one present convey it to the one absent.'"Wabisah said, "I bear witness over you, just as he took our witness over us."
أنه كان يقوم في الناس يوم الأضحى، أو يوم الفطر فيقول: إني شهدت رسول الله ﷺ في حجة الوداع، وهو يقول: أي يوم هذا؟ قال الناس: يوم النحر. قال: فأي شهر هذا؟ ثم قال: أي بلد هذا؟ قالوا: هذه البلدة. قال: فإن دماءكم وأموالكم وأعراضكم حرام عليكم كحرمة يومكم هذا، في شهركم هذا، في بلدكم هذا إلى يوم تلقونه. ثم قال: اللهم هل بلغت، يبلغ الشاهد الغائب. قال وابصة: تشهد عليكم، كما أشهد علينا.
Abu Yaala (1589) narrated it from Amr Naqid, who said, Amr bin Uthman Kullabi Raqqi told us, Asbagh bin Muhammad told us, from Jafar bin Barqan, from Shaddad the freed slave of Iyad, from Wabisa, who said, and then he related it. Amr bin Uthman Kullabi is daif, but he has been corroborated.Abu Yaala (1590) also narrated it, saying, Amr bin Muhammad Naqid said, Abu Salama Khuzai told us, that Jafar bin Barqan told them in this hadith that Salim bin Wabisa led them in prayer at Raqqa. He then mentioned this hadith of Wabisa. Wabisa said, "We bear witness against you just as it was borne witness against us, so you have retained it and we are conveying it to you."Abu Salama Khuzai is Mansur bin Salama bin Abdul-Aziz Baghdadi, "trustworthy, firmly reliable, a master of memorization," one of the narrators found in both Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. Salim bin Wabisa has a biographical entry in Tarikh Abu Zura Dimashqi (2/686).Tabarani also narrated it in Awsat (Majma Bahrayn) (1783), by way of Abdul-Salam bin Abdul-Rahman bin Sakhr Wabisi Raqqi, who said, my father told me, from Jafar bin Barqan with his chain, similarly. This is another corroboration. Tabarani erred when he said, "It is not narrated from Wabisa except by this chain, Abdul-Salam being the sole transmitter of it."Its chain of transmission is hasan, on account of the discussion surrounding Jafar bin Barqan, though his hadith is hasan. Ibn Main and Ibn Saad both regarded him as trustworthy, while Nasai regarded him as daif. The chain also contains Shaddad the freed slave of Iyad, whom no one deemed trustworthy except Ibn Hibban. For this reason, Hafiz said of him, "acceptable," and indeed he is, since he has been corroborated.Haythami said in Majma (3/269–270), "Tabarani narrated it in Awsat, and Abu Yaala narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy."