Mu'jam Kabir Tabarani 11743 — from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas

Ikrimah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man from Banu Abs, who was called Khalid bin Sinan, said to his people: I will extinguish the fire of al-Hadathan (a well-known mysterious fire) for you. Thereupon a man from his people, Umarah bin Ziyad, said to him: By Allah! O Khalid, you have never told us anything but the truth; what have you to do with the fire of al-Hadathan? Do you claim that you will extinguish it? So Umarah bin Ziyad set out with him along with some people of his tribe, until they reached that fire, which was coming out of a cleft in a mountain, in a stony tract called Harrat Ashja'. Khalid drew a line for them and seated them within it, and said: If I am slow in coming back to you, do not call me by my name. Then it (the fire) came out as though it were reddish horses following one another. Khalid went to face it and began striking it with his staff, saying these rajaz words: "Bada bada kull huda murda" (an old rajaz saying whose meaning is not clear), and he said: The son of the goat-herding woman claims that I will not come out of it with my clothes still moist. Then he entered the cleft along with that fire, and was slow in returning. Umarah bin Ziyad said: By Allah! If your companion were alive, he would have come out to you by now. The people said: He forbade us from calling him by his name. He said: Then call him by his name. So he came out to them holding his head and said: Did I not forbid you from calling me by my name? By Allah! You have killed me. So bury me, then when donkeys pass by you among which is a tailless donkey, dig me out, and you will find me alive. Then donkeys passed by them among which was a tailless donkey, and the people said: Dig him out, for he ordered us to dig him out. Umarah bin Ziyad said to them: Let it not be said among (the tribe of) Mudar that we dig up our dead. By Allah! You will never dig him up. Khalid had also told them that in his wife's baggage there were two tablets, and had said: When any matter becomes difficult for you, look into them, and you will find what you wish to ask about; and he had said: Let no menstruating woman touch them. So when they returned to his wife and asked her about them, she brought them out while she was menstruating, and the knowledge that was in them departed. Abu Yunus said that Simak related: The son of Khalid bin Sinan came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Welcome to the son of my brother."