Imran ibn Husayn

ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu is the narrator of the ḥadīth of al-Bukhārī and Muslim in which the Ḥimyarite delegation asked the Prophet ﷺ about the beginning of creation, and was told: كَانَ اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ قَبْلَهُ شَيْءٌ, there was Allah, and nothing before Him, and that He created the heavens and the earth while His Throne was upon the water.

He was sitting in the masjid as the answer was being given when someone called out that his camel had broken loose. He ran after it, and by his own account caught neither the camel nor the rest of the ḥadīth: how he wished afterwards that he had let the camel go. The Ḥimyarites returned to Yemen and did not transmit the remainder, so what he missed was never recorded, for a wisdom known to Allah.