—and no one walks along a pathway without remembering Allah except that he thereby incurs a loss from Allah.
He then added, “It was also narrated by Aḥmad, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ, all with wording similar to that of Abū Dāwūd.”
I have two observations:
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The additional phrase just mentioned is not found in either of the two passages cited from Abū Dāwūd’s Sunan; rather, it is recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (2321). In his version, in place of the clause about lying down, it reads:
“And no one retires to his bed without remembering Allah except that he incurs a loss.”
The word turah means “a deficiency”; the final hāʾ stands in place of a dropped wāw.
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Aḥmad did not transmit it through this chain with the wording quoted above; instead, he related it by another route with the following wording.
Among those who reported it is Abū Isḥāq, the freedman of al-Ḥārith, whose wording is:
“No people sit in a gathering without remembering Allah therein except that it is a loss against them; no man walks along a road without remembering Allah except that it is a loss against him; and no man retires to his bed without remembering Allah except that it is a loss against him.”
79 – “No people sit in a gathering without remembering Allah therein except that it is a loss against them; no man walks along a road without remembering Allah except that it is a loss against him; and no man retires to his bed without remembering Allah except that it is a loss against him.”
It was related by Aḥmad (2/432), Ibn al-Sunnī (375), and al-Ḥākim (1/550) from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd, from Abū Isḥāq, with this wording.
Aḥmad said: “from Isḥāq,” while al-Ḥākim said: “from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith,” and he added: