then he narrated it through the route of Abū Isḥāq from al-Agharr Abū Muslim from Abū Hurayrah and Abū Saʿīd together as marfūʿ, saying: "like it," but he did not provide its wording. He said: "like it," and I have reservations about the ḥadīth of al-Agharr being like it, for Muslim (8/72) and Ibn Mājah (2/418) have narrated it with the wording: "No group of people sits in a gathering remembering Allāh, except that the angels surround them, mercy envelops them, tranquility descends upon them, and Allāh mentions them to those with Him."

"No group of people sits in a gathering remembering Allāh, except that the angels surround them, mercy envelops them, tranquility descends upon them, and Allāh mentions them to those with Him." The context is from Ibn Mājah, and al-Tirmidhī narrated it before the ḥadīth of the chapter by two ḥadīths and said: "ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ." And his statement: "like it." And Allāh knows best. For I am in doubt about its authenticity from al-Tirmidhī, even though it appears in some copies of his book. Al-Suyūṭī included this ḥadīth in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" from the narration of al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah from Abū Hurayrah and Abū Saʿīd together. There is also doubt in attributing it to Ibn Mājah, for I did not find with him except the second wording narrated by Muslim. And knowledge is with Allāh, the Exalted. In the copy of "al-Sunan" upon which "Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī" is commented, this second isnād does not appear after the ḥadīth of the chapter. And for this wording, he has another route from Abū Hurayrah as marfūʿ with the wording: ".... And no group gathers in a house of the houses of Allāh reciting the Book of Allāh and studying it..