A man from the tribe of Banu Sahm set out on a journey with Tamim Dari and Adi bin Badda. The man from Banu Sahm died in a land where there were no Muslims. When the two of them returned with his estate, the family found that a silver bowl inlaid with gold was missing. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had the two men swear an oath.Later the bowl turned up in Makkah, and those holding it said, "We bought it from Adi and Tamim."So two men from among the relatives of the Sahmi stood up and swore by Allah that their testimony was more valid than the testimony of the other two, and that the bowl belonged to their kinsman.The narrator said, and it was concerning them that this was revealed, "You who believe, when death approaches one of you, let two just men from among you bear witness at the time of the bequest, or two others from outside your community" [Maidah 5:106].
خرج رجل من بني سهم مع تميم الداري وعدي بن بداء. فمات السهمي بأرض ليس بها مسلم. فلما قدما بتركته فقدوا جاما من فضة مخوصا بالذهب. فأحلفهما رسول الله ﷺ ثم وجدوا الجام بمكة، فقيل: اشتريناه من عدي وتميم. فقام رجلان من أولياء السهمي، فحلفا بالله: لشهادتنا أحق من شهادتهما. وإن الجام لصاحبهم قال: وفيهم نزلت {يأيها الذين ءامنوا شهدة بينكم إذا حضر أحدكم الموت حين الوصية أثنان ذوا عدل منكم أو ءاخران من غيركم} [المائدة: ١٠٦].
Bukhari narrated it in the Chapter on Wills (2780). He said, "Ali bin Abdullah told me, Yahya bin Adam told us, Ibn Abu Zaida told us, from Muhammad bin Abu Qasim, from Abdul-Malik bin Saeed bin Jubayr, from his father, from Ibn Abbas," and he related it.Bukhari's phrase "he said to me" is generally taken to indicate a connected chain. Some have said it is instead a suspended (mualaq) narration, but the first view is more correct.Abu Dawud (3606) and Tirmidhi (3060) both connected it, each transmitting it from Yahya bin Adam in the same manner.