Successors, on the authority of Abū Hurayrah and also Abū Sa‘īd. Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī would relate it sometimes from one of the two and sometimes from both together, as was his usual practice. Given his extensive knowledge, he would possess a hadith through several senior Successors, relating it sometimes from one and sometimes from another. This practice of al-Zuhrī is well known from many passages in the Sahīh.

Al-Bukhārī narrated it several times in his Sahīh. However, in his account of the Resurrection, he narrated it in full through Shu‘ayb and through Ma‘mar, since that was the appropriate place to give it in full. The wording concerning the form is as quoted above and as narrated by Muslim through Shu‘ayb and Ibrāhīm ibn Sa‘d. Al-Bukhārī also narrated it through Shu‘ayb in the section on the virtue of prostration, but did not include that wording, because his purpose in that passage is achieved