Arabic (Original)
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو قَالَا ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ ثنا مُوسَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ النَّصِيبِيُّ كُنْيَتُهُ أَبُو عِمْرَانَ ثنا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ سَأَلَنِي حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ بِمَكَّةَ مُنْذُ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً قَالَ بَقِيَّةُ وَسَمِعْتُهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ أُحَدِّثَهُمَا بِأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً فَقُلْتِ حَدَّثَنِي عُثْمَانُ بْنُ زُفَرَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الْأَسَدِ السُّلَمِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ كُنْتُ سَابِعَ سَبْع��ةٍ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَمَرَنَا فَجَمَعَ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنَّا دِرْهَمًا فَاشْتَرَيْنَا أُضْحِيَّةً بِسَبْعَةِ دَرَاهِمَ وَأَمَرَ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ وَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ بَقِيَّةُ قُلْتُ لِحَمَّادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ مَنِ السَّابِعُ؟ قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي قُلْتُ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
English Translation
Abu Abdullah al-Hafiz and Abu Sa'id ibn Abi Amr informed us, they said: Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ya'qub narrated to us, Abu Usamah narrated to us, Musa ibn Ayyub al-Nasibi - whose kunyah is Abu Imran - narrated to us, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walid narrated to us, he said: Hammad ibn Zayd and Yazid ibn Harun asked me in Makkah twenty years ago. Baqiyyah said: I heard it forty years before I narrated it to them. I said: Uthman ibn Zufar narrated to me, he said: Abu al-Asad al-Sulami narrated to me from his father, from his grandfather who said: I was the seventh of seven with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He commanded us, and each of us contributed a dirham, and we bought a sacrificial animal for seven dirhams. He ordered that one man hold [one part] and mentioned the hadith. Baqiyyah said: I said to Hammad ibn Zayd: "Who was the seventh?" He said: "I do not know." I said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."