On the authority of Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet, peace be upon him, performed ablution, and when he performed istinja', he rubbed his hand on the ground.(1)

51 - Ahmad ibn al-Sabbah informed us, saying: Shu'ayb — meaning Ibn Harb — narrated to us, saying: Aban ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali narrated to us, saying: Ibrahim ibn Jarir narrated to us, on the authority of his father, who said: I was with the Prophet, peace be upon him, when he went to the privy and relieved himself,(2) then he said: "O Jarir, bring me water for purification." So I brought him water, and he performed istinja' with water, and he gestured with his hand and rubbed it on the ground.(3)

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(1) A hasan hadith due to corroborating evidence, but this chain of transmission is weak. Sharik — meaning Ibn Abd Allah al-Nakha'i — is of poor memory, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy except Ibrahim ibn Jarir — meaning Ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali — who is truthful. Waki': he is Ibn al-Jarrah. Abu Zur'ah: he is Ibn Amr ibn Jarir ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali, the nephew of Ibrahim ibn Jarir; it is said his name was Harim, and other names have also been mentioned.
It was also narrated in similar form by Ahmad (8104) and (9861), Abu Dawud (45), Ibn Majah (358), and Ibn Hibban (1405) via multiple paths from Sharik, with this chain of transmission.
Ibn al-Qattan declared it defective in "Al-Wahm wa al-Iham" 4/103 due to Sharik and Ibrahim ibn Jarir, saying of Ibrahim: his condition is unknown. Al-Suyuti refuted this in his "Sharh al-Nasa'i" by saying: This was rejected because Ibn Hibban mentioned him in "Al-Thiqat," and Ibn Adi said: he was not weakened in himself; rather, it was said that he did not hear anything from his father, and his hadiths are sound. End quote.
There is disagreement concerning Ibrahim ibn Jarir regarding this hadith. Sharik narrated it from him with this chain, as in this narration.
And Aban ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali narrated it from him, from his father, as in the following hadith. There is also disagreement concerning Aban ibn Abd Allah regarding it, and the compiler preferred the narration of Aban over that of Sharik, as he will explicitly state shortly.
The hadith has a supporting witness in the hadith of Maymunah, may Allah be pleased with her, in al-Bukhari (266) concerning his washing, peace be upon him, in which it mentions that he poured water from his right hand onto his left, washed his private parts, then rubbed his hand on the ground or the wall, then rinsed his mouth and sniffed water into his nose... etc.
(2) In the margins of (K) and (H): his need.
(3) A hasan hadith due to corroborating evidence, but this chain of transmission is weak due to its discontinuity. Ibrahim ibn Jarir — meaning Ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali — did not hear from his father, and there is disagreement concerning him regarding this as mentioned in the preceding hadith. There is also disagreement concerning Aban ibn Abd Allah: =