It was also recorded by Ibn Mājah (96) and al-Tirmidhī (3987) via ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī, from him. However, neither of them said in their narrations: "a brilliant star" (kawkab durrī). Rather, Ibn Mājah said: "the star rising on the horizon," and al-Tirmidhī said: "the star rising in the horizon of the sky."

It is also in the Musnad of Aḥmad (11213).

Aḥmad also recorded it (11206) via Mujālid ibn Saʿīd, from Abū al-Waddāk, from Abū Saʿīd. Mujālid is weak, and his version contains discrepancies.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (3256) and Muslim (2831) via ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, raised to the Prophet ﷺ: "The people of Paradise will see the people of the upper chambers above them just as you see the brilliant star passing in the horizon from the east or the west, because of the superiority between them." They said: "O Messenger of Allah, are those the abodes of the prophets, which none but they can reach?" He said: "Yes, by Him in Whose hand is my soul, men who believed in Allah and affirmed the messengers."

It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (6556) via al-Nuʿmān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, raised to the Prophet ﷺ with the wording: "The people of Paradise will see the upper chambers in Paradise just as you see the setting star in the eastern and western horizon."

On this topic, there is also a narration from Abū Hurayrah in Aḥmad's Faḍāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah (706), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ (6006), in which it says: "And Abū Bakr and ʿUmar are among them, and how excellent they are!" Its chain is ḥasan.

And from Jābir ibn Samurah in al-Ṭabarānī's al-Kabīr (2065), in which it also says: "And Abū Bakr and ʿUmar are among them, and how excellent they are!" al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid: "In it is al-Rabīʿ ibn Sahl al-Wāsiṭī, whom I do not know."

Regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: {كَوْكَبٌ دُرِّيٌّ} [al-Nūr: 35], the Qurʾān readers differed over the reading of the word (durrī). Nāfiʿ, Ibn Kathīr, Ibn ʿĀmir, Ḥafṣ, Abū Jaʿfar, Yaʿqūb, and Khalaf read it as {دُرِّيٌّ} with a ḍammah on the dāl and a shaddah on the yāʾ, without elongation or hamzah, as a relative adjective to pearl (al-durr) due to its brilliance. Abū ʿAmr and al-Kisāʾī read it as (darrīʾ) with a kasrah on the dāl and rāʾ, followed by a yāʾ and then a hamzah with elongation, as an intensive description of a star—a pattern frequent in nouns like sikkīn and in adjectives like sikkīr. Abū Bakr and Ḥamzah read it as (durrīʾ) with a ḍammah on the dāl, then a silent yāʾ, then a hamzah with elongation, from al-darʾ meaning "repelling," i.e., some of it repels others, or its light repels its hiddenness. See Ḥujjat al-Qirāʾāt by Ibn Zanjalah, p. 499, and Ithāf Fuḍalāʾ al-Bashar fī al-Qirāʾāt al-Arbaʿ ʿAshar by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Bannāʾ, p. 324.

His saying: "wa-anʿamā" means: they exceeded and were superior.