1182), Ibn Khuzaymah’s Ṣaḥīḥ (2/348/1445), Ibn Ḥibbān’s Ṣaḥīḥ—al-Iḥsān (4/210/2814), as well as Mawārid al-Ẓamʾān (151/575), al-Firyābī’s Aḥkām al-ʿĪdayn (139/101), and Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (2/205), through Abū Yaʿlā’s narration.

The annotators of some of these sources failed to notice this, such as the annotator of the al-Muʾassasah edition of al-Iḥsān (7/65) and the annotator of Musnad Abī Yaʿlā (2/402), although both of them cited it from Ibn Khuzaymah’s Ṣaḥīḥ under the number mentioned above. Therein is what should alert anyone attentive to the fact that this is a copyist’s error, and that the wording in Ibn Khuzaymah is correctly recorded as “his feet.” This is because Ibn Khuzaymah gave it a chapter heading that indicates this, unlike what was cited above from Ibn Abī Shaybah. Ibn Khuzaymah said: “Chapter: Delivering the sermon while standing on the ground when there is no pulpit at the place of prayer.”

Then, after the hadith, he said: “This expression”—that is, “his feet,” unquestionably—“admits of two meanings: first, that he delivered the sermon standing rather than seated; and second, that he delivered the sermon on the ground.”

I say: Rather, it admits of both meanings together, as the context of the hadith indicates. For this reason, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in his commentary on Abū Saʿīd’s statement in the previously cited wording of al-Bukhārī: “...then he turns and stands facing the people” (2/449): “In Ibn Ḥibbān’s narration, through Dāwūd ibn Qays from ʿIyāḍ, it reads: ‘Then he turns toward the people, standing at his place of prayer.’ Ibn Khuzaymah has the abbreviated narration: ‘He delivered the sermon on the Day of Eid standing on his feet.’ This indicates that there was no pulpit at the place of prayer in his time, peace and blessings be upon him.”