“We do not know of anyone among the Companions who narrated it with this wording except through this chain of transmission.”

Note: Two individuals erred regarding the hadith in al-Adab al-Mufrad through the route of Saʿid ibn Dawud al-Zanbari. The first was Shaykh al-Jilani, the commentator on al-Adab. In his source documentation (1/529), he said: “The compiler included it in Sahih al-Adab, and Ahmad also reported it.” This is an error, for al-Bukhari only narrated it in his Sahih in an abbreviated form, as mentioned above. It would have been more appropriate for him to attribute it to Muslim, since Muslim’s version is more complete and has similar wording.

The other was Muhammad Fuʾad ʿAbd al-Baqi, who did not cite its source; rather, he merely said: “It has the same meaning as the preceding hadith”—that is, the abbreviated hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari, which ends: “Then one of the two has incurred it.” He should likewise have attributed it to Muslim, as just mentioned.

2892 — “Have you considered this night, which has covered everything from your sight—where has it gone?” He replied: “Allah knows best.” He said: “Indeed, Allah does whatever He wills.”

Ishaq ibn Rahawayh reported it in Musnad Abi Hurayrah (1/399/437): al-Makhzumi informed us; ʿAbd al-Wahid ibn Ziyad informed us; ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAbdullah al-Asamm informed us; Yazid ibn al-Asamm informed us, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: A man came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: “O Muhammad, have you considered: ‘a Garden as wide as the heavens and the earth’—then where is Hell?” He replied with the foregoing words.

Ibn Hibban also reported it in his Sahih (1/158/103) through the route of Ibn Rahawayh. In it, some of the wording has been corrupted; it is corrected from here.