Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh—all six of them (narrated) from al-Aʿmash, with this same chain of transmission. In the narration of Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bakkāʾī, there is explicit statement that the prohibition is raised (marfūʿ) to the Prophet, peace be upon him.

Ibn Abī Shaybah also recorded it, 2/263, via the path of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwn, from Ibrāhīm: "Ḥudhayfah led the prayer…" — he did not mention Hammām.

Ibn Abī Shaybah also recorded it, 2/262, from Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr, from al-Aʿmash, from him (Ibrāhīm), except that he mentioned that the one who pulled Ḥudhayfah was Salmān.

Likewise, Abū Yūsuf recorded it in al-Āthār (326), from Imam Abū Ḥanīfah, from Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān, from Ibrāhīm, that Ḥudhayfah…

And ʿAbd al-Razzāq recorded it (3904), from al-Thawrī, from Ḥammād, from Mujāhid, who said: "Salmān saw Ḥudhayfah leading them in prayer…"

We say: Both versions are preserved (maḥfūẓān), for ʿAbd al-Razzāq recorded (3905), from Maʿmar, from al-Aʿmash, from Mujāhid or someone else—Abū Bakr (meaning ʿAbd al-Razzāq) expressed doubt—that Abū Masʿūd, Salmān, and Ḥudhayfah were such that one of them led them in prayer, and he went to pray on a platform (dakkān), so his two companions pulled him down and said: "Get down from it."

Al-Khaṭīb recorded in Tārīkh Baghdād, 1/180, and al-Bayhaqī, 3/109, via two paths from al-Layth ibn Saʿd, from Zayd ibn Jubayrah, from Abū Ṭuwālah, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, a story similar to this one, and in it (it states) that Salmān pulled Ḥudhayfah, and in it there is explicit statement that the prohibition is raised (marfūʿ) to the Prophet, peace be upon him. And Zayd ibn Jubayrah is abandoned (matrūk).

Al-Dāraquṭnī recorded (1882/1), via the path of Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bakkāʾī, from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm, from Hammām, from Abū Masʿūd, who said: "The Messenger of Allāh, peace be upon him, prohibited that the imam stand above something while the people are behind him"—meaning lower than him.

His statement: "at al-Madāʾin"—it is seven parasangs (i.e., 21 miles) from Baghdad, on the two banks of the Tigris, and it was the seat of the kingdom of the Sasanian kings (al-Akāsirah) and the Persians, who chose it from among the cities of Iraq. The Muslims conquered it under the leadership of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ during the caliphate of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in the year (16 AH). In it is the Arch of Kisrā (Īwān Kisrā), whose ruins remain to this day.

His statement: "on a platform (dakkān)"—it is the dakkah, which is an elevated place upon which one sits.

His statement: "so he pulled him (fajabadhahu)"—meaning: he seized him and dragged him toward himself.

His statement: "you stretched me (madadtanī)"—meaning: you stretched my shirt and pulled it toward you. This was said by the author of ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd.