when he sat, he spread his left leg... and pointed with his index finger. Sufyān—who is al-Thawrī—and Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah corroborated him on this at his place (4/317/318), and it was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī (22/78, 83, 84, 85, 90) through their routes and others. The other: the pointing during the tashahhud. It is in the "Musnad" (4/319) from another route from Shuʿbah with the wording: when he sat for the tashahhud... he pointed with his index finger and made a circle with the middle finger. Its chain is authentic, and it was also extracted by Ibn Khuzaymah (698). Abū al-Aḥwaṣ corroborated him at al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/152) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (22/34/80), and added: then he began to supplicate with the other. Zāʾidah ibn Qudāmah corroborated them with the wording: he made a circle, then raised his finger, and I saw him moving it, supplicating with it. It was extracted by Abū Dāwūd and others among the authors of the Sunan, and Aḥmad (4/318) and al-Ṭabarānī (22/35/82), and it was authenticated by Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ibn al-Jārūd, al-Nawawī, and Ibn al-Qayyim, and it is included in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (717). Abū ʿAwānah corroborated him similarly, and in it: then he supplicated. It was extracted by al-Ṭabarānī (22/38/90). Ibn Idrīs narrated similarly. It was narrated by Ibn Ḥibbān (486)