Al-Bukhārī has transmitted the report in a muʿallaq form, saying: “Maʿmar said …,” and he related the incident. He also cites it, still muʿallaq, through Ḥammād ibn Salamah—from Thābit—from Anas—that ʿAbbād ibn Bishr and Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr left the Prophet ﷺ, and he narrated the story in identical terms.

An-Nasā’ī likewise recorded it through Abū Bakr ibn Nāfiʿ from Bahz ibn Asad, while al-Bayhaqī produced a fully connected chain via Yazīd ibn Hārūn; both ultimately narrate it from Ḥammād ibn Salamah with the same wording.

Another report: Al-Bayhaqī said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Wahhāb al-Iṣbahānī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Mihrān narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā narrated to us; Kāmil ibn al-ʿAlāʾ narrated to us, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:

We used to perform the ʿIshāʾ Prayer with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. During the prayer, whenever he went into prostration, al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn would leap onto his back. When he raised his head he would gently take hold of them and set them down; when he returned to prostration, they would climb on again. After he concluded the prayer, he placed one child on his right side and the other on his left. I approached and said, “O Messenger of Allah, shall I not take them back to their mother?” He replied, “No.” Then a flash of lightning lit up the sky and he said, “Follow the light; go back to your mother.” They kept walking in its radiance until they entered (her house).

Another report: Al-Bukhārī said in al-Tārīkh: Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥajjāj narrated to me; Sufyān ibn Ḥamzah narrated to us, from Kathīr ibn Zayd, from Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAmr al-Aslamī, from his father, who said:

We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when we became scattered on a night of pitch-black darkness. My fingers began to glow, so the people gathered behind me, following the light; not a single one of them was lost while my fingers continued to shine.

Al-Bayhaqī also recorded the report through Ibrāhīm ibn al-Munḏir al-Ḥizāmī, from Sufyān ibn Ḥamzah.