Hakeem bin Hizam said, "Muhammad ﷺ was the dearest man to me among all people during the days of ignorance. When he proclaimed his prophethood and migrated to Medina, I attended the pilgrimage season while still a disbeliever, and I found a robe of Dhu Yazan being sold. I bought it for fifty Dinars intending to present it as a gift to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I traveled to him in Medina and tried to give it to him as a gift, but he refused."Ubayd Allah said, "I think he said, 'We do not accept anything from the polytheists, but if you wish, we will take it for its price.'"So I sold it to him when he refused to accept it from me as a gift.
كان محمد ﷺ أحب رجل في الناس إلى في الجاهلية، فلما تنبأ وخرج إلى المدينة، شهد حكيم بن حزام الموسم وهو كافر، فوجد حلة لذي يزن تباع، فاشتراها بخمسين دينارا ليهديها لرسول الله ﷺ، فقدم بها عليه المدينة، فأراده على قبضها هدية، فأبي قال عبيد الله: حسبت أنه قال: إنا لا نقبل شيئا من المشركين، ولكن إن شئت أخذناها بالثمن فأعطيته حين أبي علي الهدية.
Ahmad narrated it (15323) from Itaab bin Ziyad, who said, Abdullah (meaning Ibn Mubarak) narrated to us, Layth bin Saad informed us, Ubaydullah bin Mughira narrated to me, and he mentioned it.Its chain is hasan because of Ubaydullah bin Mughira, who is Ibn Muayqib, whose narration is hasan, and Arak bin Malik is Ghifari, and it is possible that he heard from Hakeem bin Hizam. Ibn Athir mentioned, in the biography of Hakeem in Usud Ghabah, that Arak bin Malik is among those who narrated from Hakeem.Tabarani reported it in Kabir (3/226), and Hakim (3/484–485), via Abdullah bin Salih, from Layth, with the same chain. In their version there is an addition, "So he wore it, and I saw it on him on the pulpit, and I never saw anything more beautiful than it that day. Then he gave it to Usama bin Zayd. Hakeem then saw it on Usama and said, 'Usama, are you wearing the robe of Dhu Yazan?' He said, 'Yes, by Allah, I am better than Dhu Yazan, and my father is better than his father.'" Hakeem said, "So I went off to the people of Makkah to impress them with what Usama had said."Hakim said, "This is a hadith with a sahih chain." I say, it contains Abdullah bin Salih, whose memory is poor, though he has been corroborated on the substance of the hadith. It has another daif chain with Tabarani in Kabir (3/216).Similar in meaning is what has been narrated from Amir bin Malik, known as Mulaib al-Asinnah, who said, "I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a gift, and he said, 'We do not accept a gift from a polytheist.'"Bazzar narrated it, in Kashf Astar (1933), from Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Junayd, who said, Yusuf bin Adi narrated to us, who said, Abdullah bin Mubarak narrated to us, from Mamar, from Zuhri, from Abdul-Rahman bin Kaab bin Malik, from Amir bin Malik, who said, and he mentioned it. Abdul-Razzaq narrated it (19658) from Mamar, from Zuhri, from Abdul-Rahman bin Kaab bin Malik, with the same chain, but as mursal.Hafiz Bazzar said, "Ibn Mubarak raised it and connected it, while Abdul-Razzaq narrated it as mursal, and we do not know of Amir narrating anything other than this." Ibn Hajar said in Mukhtasar Zawaid Bazzar, "The chain is sahih, though it is a solitary narration, and Ibn Mubarak has a better memory than Abdul-Razzaq, but the version of Abdul-Razzaq is more likely to be correct." I say, this is because most of the narrators narrated it from Zuhri as mursal.