- "The best places to which riding animals are taken are this mosque of mine and the Ancient House." It was recorded by Aḥmad (3/350), Abū Yaʿlá (2/605), al-Baghawī in "Ḥadīth Abī al-Jahm" (2/2), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (1/114/2), al-Fākihī in "Ḥadīthihi" (1/15/1), and from him by Ibn Bishrān in "al-Amālī" (55/2), and ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in "al-Muntaqá min al-Musnad" (114/2) through various chains from al-Layth ibn Saʿd from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) that he said it, and he mentioned it. Al-Ṭabarānī said: "No one narrated it from al-Layth except al-ʿAlāʾ." Thus he said! And he is al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAṭiyyah Abū al-Jahm, and al-Haythamī followed up on him by saying in "Zawāʾid": "I said: al-Nasāʾī narrated it from Qutaybah from al-Layth." I said: It seems he means the "Sunan al-Nasāʾī al-Kubrā," which has not been printed, and the virtuous Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Sharaf al-Dīn has informed me that he has come across a complete copy of it, and he is now preparing it for printing. May Allāh facilitate that for him. Then he gifted me the first part of it, which contains the Book of Purification. May Allāh facilitate the completion of its printing and reward him well. The ḥadīth is well-known from al-Layth, as others have recorded it through multiple chains from al-Layth with it, and al-Fākihī explicitly stated that Abū al-Zubayr confirmed the narration, which is important in other than al-Layth's narration from him, for it is established from al-Layth that he does not narrate from Abū al-Zubayr except what he explicitly confirmed. Thus, the isnād is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim. Al-Mundhirī was brief in his statement in "al-Targhīb" (2/145):