وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَشَجُّ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ بْنِ رَافِعٍ، عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ عَبَدَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ: «إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَيَتَمَثَّلُ فِي صُورَةِ الرَّجُلِ، فَيَأْتِي الْقَوْمَ فَيُحَدِّثُهُمْ بِالْحَدِيثِ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ، فَيَتَفَرَّقُونَ، فَيَقُولُ الرَّجُلُ مِنْهُمْ: سَمِعْتُ رَجُلًا أَعْرِفُ وَجْهَهُ، وَلَا أَدْرِي مَا اسْمُهُ، يُحَدِّثُ».
Translation: Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj narrated to me; Wakīʿ narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from al-Musayyab ibn Rāfiʿ, from ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbadah, who said that ʿAbd Allāh [ibn Masʿūd] said: “Satan may take the form of a man and come to a group, telling them a fabricated story. They then disperse, and one of them says, ‘I heard a man telling it; I recognize his face, but I do not know his name.’”
This is an athar attributed to Ibn Masʿūd, not a new Prophetic statement. Recognition of a face does not identify or authenticate the narrator. Al-Nawawī notes an isnād feature: three Successors narrating in succession.