Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ عَبْد اللَّهِ وَسَمِعْتُهُ أَنَا مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ بِالْكُوفَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَعَثَهُ وَحْدَهُ عَيْنًا إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ جِئْتُ إِلَى خَشَبَةِ خُبَيْبٍ وَأَنَا أَتَخَوَّفُ الْعُيُونَ فَرَقِيتُ فِيهَا فَحَلَلْتُ خُبَيْبًا فَوَقَعَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَانْتَبَذْتُ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتُّ فَلَمْ أَرَ خُبَيْبًا وَلَكَأَنَّمَا ابْتَلَعَتْهُ الْأَرْضُ فَلَمْ يُرَ لِخُبَيْبٍ أَثَرٌ حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْد الرَّحْمَنِ وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ لَنَا فِيهِ عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ وَأَمَّا أَبِي فَحَدَّثَنَا عَنْهُ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ الزُّهْرِيَّ وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ ابْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ بِالْكُوفَةِ فَجَعَلَهُ لَنَا عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ.
English Translation
Abdullah b. Muhammad b. Abi Shayba narrated to us - Abdullah said, and I also heard it from Abdullah b. Abi Shayba in Kufa - who said: Ja'far b. Awn narrated to us, from Ibrahim b. Isma'il, who said: Ja'far b. Amr b. Umayya informed me, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent him alone as a scout to Quraysh. He said: "I came to the tree of Khubayb, fearing the watchers, so I climbed it and released Khubayb, and he fell to the ground. I withdrew a short distance, then looked back, and I could not see Khubayb - it was as if the earth had swallowed him - and no trace of Khubayb has been seen to this hour." Abu Abd al-Rahman said: Ibn Abi Shayba said it was to us from al-Zuhri concerning it, but as for my father, he narrated it to us from him without mentioning al-Zuhri; and Ibn Abi Shayba narrated it to us in Kufa, attributing it to us from al-Zuhri.