أبو بكر بن محمد بن همام النيسابوري

Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn Hammām al-Naysābūrī related to us. He said: Muḥammad ibn Yazīd related to me. He said: Bishr ibn Abī al-Azhar related to me, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from ʿUthmān al-Aʿshā, from Muʿāwiya al-Ḥaḍramī, who said: The cavalry was presented before ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may God be pleased with him. Ibn Muljam passed before him, and he asked him about his lineage. He claimed descent from someone other than his father. ʿAlī told him: “You lie.” This happened repeatedly: each time he ascribed himself to someone other than his father, ʿAlī said: “You lie.” Finally he ascribed himself to his own father, and ʿAlī said: “You speak the truth. The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, told me that my killer resembles a Jew—or is a yellow-complexioned Jew.”