Is the Ḥadīth that mentions the story of the Bedouin who came to the Prophet with a lizard (ḍabb), and the lizard bore witness to the Prophet’s prophethood, which led to the Bedouin’s embracing Islam and the Islam of a thousand polytheist horsemen, authentic or weak?
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This is weak or fabricated, as it contains elements of denunciation and strangeness. Ibn Dihya described it as fabricated, and Al-Dhahabi described it as false.
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