Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 3:5157

Waki’ narrated to us, from Abu al-Umays, from ‘Amr ibn Murrah, from Abu Salih al-Hanafi, from his brother Talq ibn Qays, who said: Abu Dharr said: "That I should pray upon red sand is more beloved to me than that I should pray in Bayt al-Maqdis."