Shurayh, from Abu al-Aswad, from 'Urwah, from 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked during the campaign of Tabuk about the sutrah of the one praying, and he said: "Like the rear part of a camel saddle."(1)

747 - 'Ubaydullah ibn Sa'id informed us, saying: Yahya narrated to us, from 'Ubaydullah, who said: Nafi' informed us, from Ibn 'Umar, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said(2): He would plant(3) the spear, then pray toward it.(4)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. 'Abdullah ibn Yazid: he is Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Muqri', and Abu al-Aswad: he is Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Nawfal. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (823).
Muslim also transmitted it (500): (244) from Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah ibn Numayr, from 'Abdullah ibn Yazid al-Muqri', with this chain of transmission.
Muslim also transmitted it (500): (243) from Zuhayr ibn Harb, from 'Abdullah ibn Yazid al-Muqri', from Sa'id ibn Abi Ayyub, from Abu al-Aswad, with it, without mentioning the campaign of Tabuk.
His saying: mu'khirat al-rahil, with a damma on the mim and a sukun on the hamzah, and some of them give a tashdid to the kha', and some consider this a solecism. "Al-Misbah al-Munir."
(2) The one saying this is Ibn 'Umar, and it appears in the margin of (K) that it was (nuskhah) instead of: qala kana, and in (Q): from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: He would...
(3) In (Q) and the margin of (H): turkaz.
(4) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Yahya: he is Ibn Sa'id al-Qattan, and 'Ubaydullah: he is Ibn 'Umar al-'Umari, and Nafi': he is the freed slave of Ibn 'Umar. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (824).
Ahmad transmitted it (4614) and (4681), al-Bukhari (498), and Ibn Hibban (2377) from the path of Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan, with this chain of transmission.
Ahmad transmitted it (5734), (5840), and (6286), al-Bukhari (494) and (972), Muslim (501), Abu Dawud (687), and Ibn Majah (941) and (1305), from multiple paths from 'Ubaydullah ibn 'Umar al-'Umari, with it, and in some paths that he would do that when he went out on the day of 'Eid, or when he was on a journey.
Al-Bukhari (973) and Ibn Majah (1304) also transmitted it from the path of al-Awza'i, from Nafi', similar to it.
His saying: yarkuzu: he plants it, and al-harbah: it is smaller than the spear, with a broad blade. Al-Sindi said this. =