(Note): Imam al-Nawawi said in his Commentary on Muslim (17/20), commenting on the words, “or erased”:

“This is how it appears in most copies of Sahih Muslim: ‘or erased,’ with ‘or’; while in some copies it is ‘and erased,’ with ‘and.’ Al-Humaydi said in al-Jamʿ bayn al-Sahihayn: This is how it appears in Muslim’s book: ‘or erased,’ with ‘or.’ Al-Barqani said: Shuʿbah, Abu ʿAwanah, and Yahya al-Qattan narrated it from [Musa] (1)—the narrator through whom Muslim transmitted it—and they said: ‘and erased,’ with ‘and.’”

I say: Both versions occur in the above-cited sources for tracing the hadith, and the difference is insignificant, since “or” can carry the meaning of “and.” *

3603—“Indeed, O son of al-Khattab! By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, Satan never meets you travelling along a mountain pass except that he takes a pass other than yours.”

It was narrated by al-Bukhari (3294, 3683, and 6085), Muslim (7/114–115), al-Nasa’i in al-Sunan al-Kubra (8130—Virtues of the Companions) and (10035—Deeds of the Day and Night), Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (6893—al-Ihsan), Ibn Abi Shaybah (14/83), Ahmad in his Musnad (1/171, 182, 184, and 187) and in Fada’il al-Sahabah (301 and 302), Ibn Abi ʿAsim in al-Sunnah (2/582), Abu Yaʿla (810), al-Bazzar (115—Musnad of Saʿd), Ibn al-Sunni in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah (202), al-Baghawi in Sharh al-Sunnah (3874), and al-Shashi in his Musnad (118), through various chains from al-Zuhri, from ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab, from Muhammad ibn Saʿd, from his father, who said: