22 – “Beware of turning the backs of your riding-beasts into pulpits. Allah has only subjected them to you so that they may carry you to a land you could never have reached except with great hardship; He has made the earth for you, so use it to discharge your needs.”

Abū Dāwūd recorded it (no. 2567); al-Bayhaqī (5/255) took it from him, as did Abū al-Qāsim al-Samarkandī in Majlis 128 of his Amālī, and through the latter Ibn ʿAsākir (19/85/1). Both routes run through Yaḥyā b. Abī ʿAmr al-Saybānī, from Abū Maryam, from Abū Hurayrah, as a marfūʿ report.

I say: The chain is sound. Yaḥyā b. Abī ʿAmr al-Saybānī—spelled with an initial sīn, a quiescent yāʾ, and then a bāʾ—is reliable. In the entry for Abū Maryam in Tahdhīb it is miswritten as “al-Shaybānī” with a shīn, which is a transcription error.

As for Abū Maryam, al-ʿAjlī said in al-Thiqat (p. 94, Subkī arrangement):