A number of transmitters have also related it from ʿĀṣim in a different wording:

“If people knew about being alone what I know, no rider would ever travel by night on his own.”

61 — “If people knew about being alone what I know, no rider would ever travel by night on his own.”

Al-Bukhārī (2/247), al-Tirmidhī (1/314), al-Dāramī (2/289), Ibn Mājah (3768), Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1970 – Mawārid), al-Ḥākim (2/101), Aḥmad (2/23, 24, 86, 120), al-Bayhaqī (5/257), and Ibn ʿAsākir (18/89/2) all recorded it through several chains from ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad ibn Zayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, traced back to the Prophet.

Al-Ḥākim said, “Its chain of transmission is sound,” and al-Dhahabī agreed. Al-Tirmidhī commented, “A ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth; we know it only through ʿĀṣim’s narration.”

I say: His brother ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad corroborated him. Aḥmad (2/111–112) said, “Muʾammal narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad narrated it,” and on another occasion Muʾammal narrated it without adding, “from Ibn ʿUmar.”