"They complete the first row, then they stand close together in the row."(1)

29 - Chapter: The Virtue of the First Row over the Second

817 - Yahya ibn 'Uthman al-Himsi informed me, saying: Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Bahir ibn Sa'd, from Khalid ibn Ma'dan, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from al-'Irbad ibn Sariyah, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: He used to pray for the first row three times, and for the second once.(2)

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(1) In (R), (M), and the margin of (K): "and they stand close together," and above the waw in (M) is written: "then."
(2) Its chain is authentic; al-A'mash is Sulayman ibn Mihran. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under numbers (892) and (11370).
Ahmad (20964) and (21024), Muslim (430): (119), Abu Dawud (661), Ibn Majah (992), and Ibn Hibban (2154) and (2162) also narrated it via multiple paths from al-A'mash with this chain.
In Ahmad (20964) and Muslim there is an addition: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out to us and said: 'Why do I see you raising your hands as if they were the tails of wild horses...'" And in both of them, as well as in Ibn Majah and Ibn Hibban (2154): "They complete the first rows," and in Ahmad (20964): "the first," and in Abu Dawud and Ibn Hibban (2162): "They complete the front rows."
(3) An authentic hadith. Baqiyyah — Ibn al-Walid, although he used to practice tadlis and taswiyah — was followed (by other narrators), and the rest of his narrators are trustworthy. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (893).
Ahmad (17157) also narrated it from Haywah ibn Shurayh, from Baqiyyah ibn al-Walid, with this chain.
Ahmad (17162) also narrated it via the path of Isma'il ibn 'Ayyash, from Bahir ibn Sa'd, with similar wording.
Ahmad (17156) and Ibn Hibban (2158) and (2159) also narrated it via the path of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi, from Khalid ibn Ma'dan, with it.
Ahmad (17141) and (17148) and Ibn Majah (996) also narrated it via the path of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi, from Khalid ibn Ma'dan, from al-'Irbad ibn Sariyah, with it, without mentioning Jubayr ibn Nufayr in its chain, and this chain is disconnected. In them it says "he seeks forgiveness" instead of "he prays."
Al-Mizzi in "Tuhfat al-Ashraf" 7/287 combined this narration of al-Nasa'i with the narration of Ibn Majah, =