Abu Dawud said: This hadith was narrated by ʿUtbah ibn Abī Ḥakīm, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĪsā, from al-ʿAbbās ibn Sahl, and he did not mention al-tawarruk (sitting with the left foot spread and the right foot erect), and he narrated something similar to the hadith of Fulayḥ. Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥurr also narrated something similar to the sitting described in the hadith of Fulayḥ and ʿUtbah.

735 — ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us, Biqyah narrated to us, ʿUtbah narrated to me, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĪsā narrated to me, from al-ʿAbbās ibn Sahl al-Sāʿidī, from Abū Ḥumayd, with this hadith. He said: "And when he prostrated, he separated his thighs, not resting his belly on any part of his thighs."

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= It will be repeated under number (967). And see what preceded under number (730).

His statement: "Then he sat and spread his left foot..." — al-Tirmidhī in his Jāmiʿ (following hadith 293), Ibn Khuzaymah in his Ṣaḥīḥ (689), and al-Bayhaqī in his Sunan 2/129 interpreted it as referring to the first tashahhud, while the author's statement here indicates that he interpreted it as referring to the final tashahhud. The author repeated it under number (967) and said: "Then he mentioned the hadith, and did not mention the raising when rising from the second rakʿah, nor the sitting. He said: until he finished, then he sat and spread his left foot, and turned the front of his right foot toward the qiblah." This is explicit in showing that he regarded this hadith of Fulayḥ as concerning the final tashahhud. In any case, al-tawarruk in the final tashahhud is established from the hadith of Abū Ḥumayd through two sound chains, as preceded under numbers (730–732).

His statement: "And he bent his hands" (wa-wattara yadayhi) means he curved them, from al-tawtīr, which is placing the bowstring on the bow.

(1) His narration will follow after this.
(2) The narration of al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥurr has preceded under number (733).
(3) ʿUtbah ibn Abī Ḥakīm — although he was ṣadūq (truthful) — had some delusions and errors, and he inverted the name of his shaykh, saying "ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĪsā," whereas the correct form is "ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allah." This ʿĪsā was narrated from by a group, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt. The differences concerning ʿĪsā in his chain have already been mentioned under number (733), and they (i.e., Fulayḥ and ʿUtbah) were alone in this addition. Biqyah is Ibn al-Walīd al-Ḥimṣī.

Al-Bayhaqī also transmitted it in 2/115 from the path of the author, with this chain. Al-Bayhaqī said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated it from ʿUtbah, except that he said in his chain: "ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allah," and that is the correct version.