وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْأَشْعَثِيُّ جَمِيعًا عَنِ ابْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ، قَالَ سَعِيدٌ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حُجَيْرٍ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ، قَالَ: جَاءَ هَذَا إِلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ يَعْنِي بُشَيْرَ بْنَ كَعْبٍ ـ فَجَعَلَ يُحَدِّثُهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ: عُدْ لِحَدِيثِ كَذَا وَكَذَا. فَعَادَ لَهُ ثُمَّ حَدَّثَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: عُدْ لِحَدِيثِ كَذَا وَكَذَا. فَعَادَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: مَا أَدْرِي أَعَرَفْتَ حَدِيثِي كُلَّهُ وَأَنْكَرْتَ هَذَا، أَمْ أَنْكَرْتَ حَدِيثِي كُلَّهُ وَعَرَفْتَ هَذَا؟
Translation: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbād and Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr al-Ashʿathī both transmitted to me from Ibn ʿUyaynah. Saʿīd said: Sufyān informed us, from Hishām ibn Ḥujayr, from Ṭāwūs, who said: “This man—meaning Bushayr ibn Kaʿb—came to Ibn ʿAbbās and began reporting to him. Ibn ʿAbbās said, ‘Repeat the report about such-and-such.’ He repeated it and continued telling him reports. Ibn ʿAbbās again said, ‘Repeat the report about such-and-such.’ He repeated it, then asked, ‘I do not know: have you recognized all my reports and rejected this one, or have you rejected all my reports and recognized this one?’”
“Repeat the report about such-and-such” introduces a concrete check of what is being narrated. The reply follows in the next source segment; the question alone does not amount to a definitive narrator verdict.