Ibn Abbas reported that during the year of Hudaybiyyah, among the sacrificial animals offered by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was a camel that had belonged to Abu Jahl, with a silver nose-ring on its head.
أن رسول الله ﷺ أهدى عام الحديبية في هدايا رسول الله ﷺ جملا كان لأبي جهل في رأسه برة فضة.
Abu Dawud (1749) reported it from Nufayli, who said, Muhammad bin Salama narrated to us, Muhammad bin Ishaq narrated to us. And also, Muhammad bin Minhal narrated to us, Yazid bin Zuray narrated to us, from Muhammad bin Ishaq, with the same meaning, who said, Abdullah, meaning Ibn Abu Najeeh, said, Mujahid narrated to me, from Ibn Abbas, and he mentioned it. Ibn Minhal said, "a ring of gold." Nufayli added, "to anger the polytheists by that."Muhammad bin Ishaq is a mudallis and he narrated using an, but he made clear his use of the word "narrated" in what Imam Ahmad reported (2362) from Yaqub, who said, my father narrated to us, from Ibn Ishaq, who said, Abdullah bin Abu Najeeh narrated to me, from Mujahid bin Jabr, from Ibn Abbas, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had sent as a sacrificial offering the camel of Abu Jahl, which had been seized on the day of Badr, with a silver ring in its nose, in the year of Hudaybiya, among his sacrificial animals. And in another place he said, "to anger the polytheists by that."Ibn Khuzayma also reported it (2897, 2898), with the explicit wording in the second narration. Likewise Hakim (1/467), who said, "Sahih according to the condition of Muslim."Moreover, it has other chains besides that of Ibn Ishaq, among them what Imam Ahmad reported (2466) from Husayn, who said, Jareer bin Hazim narrated to us, from Ibn Abu Najeeh, from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent as a sacrificial offering among his sacrificial animals a camel that had belonged to Abu Jahl, with a silver ring in its nose. Bayhaqi reported it through this same route (5/230) and said, "This is a sahih isnad." Except that they hold the view that Jareer bin Hazim took it from Muhammad bin Ishaq and then concealed this by tadlis, for if it were established that Jareer heard it directly from Ibn Abu Najeeh, the hadith would be sahih. End of quote.I say, Jareer bin Hazim is trustworthy and reliable, and he was not accused of tadlis, so his use of an does not harm the narration, and he has narrations using an in the Sahihayn. So there is no need for this comment mentioned by Bayhaqi, may Allah have mercy on him. If the hadith is established as sahih, it should not be undermined by something that is not established as sahih, such as the narration of Sufyan, from Ibn Abu Layla, from Hakam, from Miqsam, from Ibn Abbas. Ibn Majah reported it (3100) through several routes from Waki, who said, Sufyan narrated to us. But Ibn Abu Layla has poor memory, and Hakam did not hear from Miqsam.Likewise the narration of Malik in the Muwatta (1/377) from Nafi, from Abdullah bin Abu Bakr bin Muhammad bin Amr bin Hazm, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent as a sacrificial offering a camel that had belonged to Abu Jahl bin Hisham, during a Hajj or an Umrah. This is mursal. This is how Yahya narrated it in the Muwatta, and it contains a clear error, for everyone who narrated it from Malik did not mention Nafi in it, as Ibn Abdul-Barr said in Tamhid (17/413), "This is a clear mistake, and I do not know its explanation. The narrators of the Muwatta from Malik have not differed, as far as I know, both in the past and now, that this hadith in the Muwatta is from Malik, from Abdullah bin Abu Bakr, with no mention of Nafi in it, and there is no reason for Nafi to be mentioned in it. Nafi never narrated anything at all from Abdullah bin Abu Bakr, rather Abdullah bin Abu Bakr was among those suited to narrate from Nafi, and indeed people of greater standing than him narrated from Nafi. This hadith in the Muwatta, according to the group of its narrators, is from Malik, from Abdullah bin Abu Bakr."Likewise, what Khatib reported in his Tarikh (4/82–83), in the biography of Abu Abdullah Ahmad bin Hasan bin Abdul-Jabbar Sufi, is not sahih, "Suwayd bin Saeed informed us, Malik narrated to us, from Zuhri, from Anas, from Abu Bakr, that the Prophet ﷺ sent a camel as a sacrificial offering that had belonged to Abu Jahl." Daraqutni was asked about this hadith and he said, "Abu Abdullah Sufi erred in it, a grave error. The correct version is from Malik, from Abdullah bin Abu Bakr, as a mursal narration from the Prophet ﷺ, and the error in it comes from Sufi."