1974 – Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn al-ʿAbbas narrated to us; he said: Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Saʿid narrated to us; he said: al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan narrated to us; he said: Abu Muʿawiyah narrated to us, from—

1975 – And Ahmad ibn ʿUbayd—Ali ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mubashshir narrated to us; he said: Ahmad ibn Sinan narrated to us; he said: Abu Muʿawiyah reported to us; al-Aʿmash, from al-Maʿrur ibn Suwayd, from Abu Dharr, who said:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Allah, majestic and exalted, says: ‘Whoever performs a good deed will have ten times its like, and whoever commits an evil deed—his recompense is only its like—and I forgive. If someone comes to Me with sins filling the earth and then meets Me having associated nothing with Me, I will grant him forgiveness equal to it. Whoever draws near to Me by a handspan, I draw near to him by an arm’s length; whoever draws near to Me by an arm’s length, I draw near to him by a fathom; and whoever comes to Me walking ⦗1133⦘ I come to him running.’”

The wording of both chains is nearly identical, and Muslim also recorded it.