It was narrated by al-Ḥakam b. Maʿbad, mentioned by Ibn al-Muḥibb in Al-Ṣifāt (1/241/a).
It is narrated by Muḥammad b. al-Muṣaffā and Muḥammad b. Mubārak al-Ṣūrī, from Ibrāhīm al-Ḥizāmī, from Muḥammad b. Fulayḥ, from his father, from Sālim Abū al-Naḍr, from ʿUbayd b. Ḥunayn and Busr b. Saʿīd. Abū Mūsā mentioned it as preceded, but I have not come across it.
It is narrated by Layth, from Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb, from Abū al-Naḍr, with it.
Aḥmad narrated it in Al-Musnad (3/42), and its wording is: From Abū al-Naḍr, that Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, may God be pleased with him, was complaining of pain in his leg. His brother entered upon him while he had placed one of his legs over the other, lying down. He struck his painful leg with his hand, causing him pain. He said: "You hurt me! Did you not know that my leg is in pain?" He said: "Yes." He said: "Then what drove you to do that?" He said: "Did you not hear that the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, forbade this?!"
Al-Haythamī said in Al-Majmaʿ (8/100): Aḥmad narrated it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih (Authentic); except that Abū al-Naḍr did not hear from Abū Saʿīd. End quote.
(Al-Sammārī, the editor of the book Naqḍ al-Dārimī ʿalā al-Marīsī, said: Its chain of transmission consists entirely of reliable narrators... Abū al-Naḍr is Sālim b. Abī Umayya (a reliable and precise narrator, who used to transmit mursal reports), and he did not hear from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, may God be pleased with him, so the chain of transmission is Broken (Munqati'). However, it indicates that the origin of the hadith is established, and that ʿUbayd b. Ḥunayn brought the details of the story and memorized the hadith. Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "If a hadith contains a story, it indicates that its narrator memorized it." (Hady al-Sārī 2/960). End quote.)
Al-Ḥārith b. Abī Usāma narrated it (Zawāʾiduhu / 861), both of them from Yūnus, from Layth, with it.
Aḥmad b. Manīʿ narrated it (Al-Maṭālib al-ʿĀliya / 2830) from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Ḥasan, from Layth, with it.
Al-Būṣīrī said in Al-Mujarrada (2/158): Ibn Manīʿ, al-Ḥārith, and Aḥmad narrated it with a Sahih (Authentic) chain of transmission.
