He screens him when there is before him something like the back of a camel saddle. But if there is not before him something like the back of a camel saddle, then his prayer is cut off by a woman, a donkey, and a black dog." I said: "What is the matter with the black one as opposed to the yellow one and the red one?" He said: "I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ just as you have asked me, and he said: 'The black dog is a devil.'" (1)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Yazīd is Ibn Zurayʿ, and Yūnus is Ibn ʿUbayd. It is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā*, no. (828).
It was also recorded by Aḥmad (21342) and (21424), Muslim (510), al-Tirmidhī (338), and Ibn Ḥibbān (2389) and (2392) via multiple routes from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, with this chain.
It was also recorded by Aḥmad (21323), (21378), (21402), and (21430), Muslim (510), Abū Dāwūd (702), al-Tirmidhī (338), Ibn Mājah (952) and (3210), and Ibn Ḥibbān (2383), (2384), (2385), (2388), (2389), and (2391) via multiple routes from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, with it.
Hishām ibn Ḥassān differed in its text — as in *Ṣaḥīḥ* Ibn Khuzaymah (831) and *Ṣaḥīḥ* Ibn Ḥibbān (2391) — for he narrated it from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, with it, with the wording: "The prayer is repeated on account of the passing of a donkey…" to the end of the ḥadīth. Ibn Ḥibbān gave it a chapter heading with his statement: "Mention of the clarification that a person's prayer is only cut off by the passing of a dog, a donkey, and a woman, not by their mere presence or their crossing in front of him." End quote. Thus he distinguished between passing and crossing.
Al-Nawawī said in *Sharḥ Muslim* 4/227: Mālik, Abū Ḥanīfah, al-Shāfiʿī — may Allah be pleased with them — and the majority of scholars from the early and later generations said: prayer is not invalidated by the passing of any of these or anyone else. These scholars interpreted this ḥadīth as meaning that "cutting off" refers to a deficiency in the prayer due to the heart being occupied with these things, and it does not mean its invalidation.
Al-Sindī said: His statement "something like the back of a camel saddle" means: its size. "Then it cuts off…" etc. The apparent meaning of the ḥadīth is that the passing of these things invalidates the prayer, and some held this view, while the majority are contrary to it. Therefore al-Nawawī and others interpreted it as meaning that "cutting off" refers to a deficiency in the prayer due to the heart being occupied with these things, and it does not mean its invalidation. Then al-Nawawī refuted the claim that the ḥadīth was abrogated. Al-Qurṭubī said: This is an exaggeration in warning against its being cut off by occupation with these mentioned things, for the woman tempts, the donkey brays, and the dog frightens, thus disturbing the one who reflects on such things until his prayer is cut off. So since these matters lead to cutting off, they were deemed as cutting off.
Then al-Sindī said: The occupation of the heart is not removed by the back of the camel saddle, for the one passing behind the back of the camel saddle is =