It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (509), Abū Yaʿlá in "his Musnad" (3/1310-1311), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (9991), and Tamām in "al-Fawāʾid" (11/2), and Ismāʿīl al-Ṣaffār in "al-Thānī min Ḥadīthihi" (7/2). Al-Tirmidhī said: "In this chapter, there is also a report from Ibn ʿUmar, and Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl is unreliable in ḥadīth. The practice among the people of knowledge from the Companions of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and others is to recommend facing the imām when he delivers the khuṭbah." This is the opinion of Sufyān al-Thawrī, al-Shāfiʿī, Aḥmad, and Isḥāq, and nothing authentic is reported in this chapter from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)." Thus he said, but there is a consideration due to the previous ḥadīth of Ibn al-Mubārak and the forthcoming witness. As for his statement: "... from Ibn ʿUmar," I have not seen it elevated to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). Al-Bayhaqī narrated with his isnād from Abū ʿAmmār (originally: Abū ʿĀmir): al-Walīd ibn Muslim told us, Ismāʿīl and others informed me from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī who said: "The sunnah is that when the imām sits on the pulpit on Friday, the people turn their faces towards him." And with his isnād: al-Walīd narrated to us, he said: I mentioned that to al-Layth ibn Saʿd, and he informed me from Ibn ʿAjlān that he informed him from Nāfiʿ: "that Ibn ʿUmar would finish his tasbīḥ on Friday before the imām came out, and when he came out, the imām would not sit until he faced him." I said: And this isnād is good, its men are documented in "al-Tahdhīb" up to Ibn ʿAmmār, whose name is al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥurayth al-Marwazī, and what is in the original is an error, perhaps from the printer or the copyist, for the narrator from him is Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, who is Ibn Mutawiyyah al-Iṣbahānī, and he is well-documented in "Ṭabaqāt al-Iṣbahāniyyīn" by Abū al-Shaykh and "Akhbār Iṣbahān" by Abū Nuʿaym, and he is among the teachers of Abū al-Shaykh. Al-Mizzī mentioned him among the narrators from Abū ʿAmmār, as he mentioned this among the narrators from al-Walīd ibn Muslim