Ubayd bin Umayr (may Allah have mercy on him) relates: I heard a man saying to Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): "Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Indeed I joke, but I say nothing except the truth'?" He said: "Yes."
No one narrated this hadith from Ubayd bin Umayr (may Allah have mercy on him) except Tufayl bin Sinan (may Allah have mercy on him), from Tufayl (may Allah have mercy on him) only Sulayman bin Abi Dawud (may Allah have mercy on him), and from Sulayman (may Allah have mercy on him) only Abdullah bin Yazid (may Allah have mercy on him); Hisham bin Ammar (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it, and this hadith is not narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) except with this chain.
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب الميم / 6764
Hadith Takhrij«أخرجه الطبراني فى «الكبير» برقم: 13443، والطبراني فى «الصغير» برقم: 779، والطبراني فى «الأوسط» برقم: 995، 7322»