Al-Zuhrī also transmits it from Muḥammad ibn Jubayr with wording similar to the foregoing report, though somewhat abbreviated, and it contains the first of the two additional passages.

Ibn Mājah likewise records it from Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabāḥ, who said: “Sufyān informed us, from al-Zuhrī,” and in that version the other additional wording is present.

Thus Ibn al-Ṣabāḥ relates it as Sufyān directly from al-Zuhrī with no intermediary, yet the correct reading appears to be the first one. The ḥāfiẓ (Ibn Ḥajar) did not mention this point, nor did he name those who transmitted the report to Ibn ʿUyaynah, as though it had not reached him.

Al-Bukhārī has also included the ḥadith in Afʿāl al-ʿIbād through the route of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from al-Zuhrī, with the wording:

“I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to arrange the ransom of captives. I lay down to sleep in the mosque after the late-afternoon prayer while I was still a polytheist. By Allah, nothing woke me except the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reciting at sunset: ‘By the Mount, and a Book inscribed…’ (al-Ṭūr 1–2).”

All of its narrators are trustworthy; every one of them appears in Muslim’s collection except Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq. He himself is reliable, but he practiced tadlīs and here transmits the report with the loosely connected formula “from.”

The narration is also found in the two Ṣaḥīḥs, in the Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī, and in both Musnads through various routes from al-Zuhrī, in the abridged form: “I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ recite Sūrat al-Ṭūr during the sunset prayer.”

I have located a third chain for the ḥadith: al-Ṭabarānī relates it in his al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, saying, “Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr al-Tustarī and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Shuʿayb al-Rajāfī narrated to us …”