Al-Aʿmash related the report in a mawqūf form, while Suhayl, on the authority of his father, transmitted it as a marfūʿ Prophetic ḥadīth.

Imām Aḥmad likewise recorded it, through ʿAffān → Wahīb → Suhayl → his father → Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with wording similar to that quoted earlier. Al-Bukhārī also cited it in muʿallaq form from Suhayl, and Muslim transmitted it through Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim → Bahz ibn Asad → Wahīb along the same chain.

Aḥmad further narrated it through Ghundar → Shuʿbah → Sulaymān (al-Aʿmash) → Abū Ṣāliḥ → Abū Hurayrah, but in that version it remains mawqūf, as al-Bukhārī alluded.

Imām Aḥmad also said: “Abū Muʿāwiyah related to us; al-Aʿmash related to us,” and Ibn Numayr likewise, all from al-Aʿmash → Abū Ṣāliḥ → Abū Hurayrah who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) declared:

“Whoever relieves a believer of a distress from the distresses of this worldly life, Allah will relieve him of a distress from the distresses of the Day of Resurrection. Whoever conceals a Muslim’s faults, Allah will conceal him in this world and the Hereafter. Whoever makes things easy for one in hardship, Allah will make things easy for him in this world and the Hereafter. Allah continues to aid the servant so long as the servant is aiding his brother. Whoever treads a path in search of knowledge, Allah will make a path to Paradise easy for him. No people gather in one of the houses of Allah, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it among themselves, without tranquility descending upon them, mercy enveloping them, the angels surrounding them, and Allah mentioning them among those who are with Him. And whoever is slowed by his deeds will not be sped forward by his lineage.”

Muslim narrated this ḥadīth as well through the route of Abū Muʿāwiyah.

Imām Aḥmad further reported—through ʿAbd al-Razzaq → Maʿmar → Abū Isḥāq → al-Agharr Abū Muslim—on the authority of both Abū Hurayrah and Abū Saʿīd that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

“No people ever gather to remember Allah without the angels surrounding them, mercy covering them, tranquility descending upon them, and Allah mentioning them among those who are with Him.”

The same meaning was also transmitted through the chains of Isrā’īl, Sufyān al-Thawrī, and Shuʿbah, all from Abū Isḥāq.