وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو أَيُّوبَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ الْغَيْلَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ ـ يَعْنِي الْعَقَدِيَّ ـ حَدَّثَنَا رَبَاحٌ، عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: جَاءَ بُشَيْرٌ الْعَدَوِيُّ إِلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، فَجَعَلَ يُحَدِّثُ وَيَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ. فَجَعَلَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لَا يَأْذَنُ لِحَدِيثِهِ وَلَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ، مَا لِي لَا أَرَاكَ تَسْمَعُ لِحَدِيثِي؟ أُحَدِّثُكَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَلَا تَسْمَعُ.
Translation: Abū Ayyūb Sulaymān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ghaylānī narrated to me; Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī narrated to us; Rabāḥ narrated to us, from Qays ibn Saʿd, from Mujāhid, who said: “Bushayr al-ʿAdawī came to Ibn ʿAbbās and kept narrating, saying, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said.’ Ibn ʿAbbās neither listened attentively to his report nor looked at him. Bushayr said, ‘Ibn ʿAbbās, why do I not see you listening to my report? I narrate to you from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, yet you do not listen!’”
Repeatedly saying “the Messenger said” does not by itself authenticate a report. The answer that follows locates the difference in knowledge of the transmitter; the complete chain is retained despite thematic overlap with the previous account.