Mālik's report uses أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ: “it reached him.” The narrators who conveyed it to him are not named here.
The two omitted intermediaries between Mālik and Abū Hurayrah are:
• Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān;
• his father, ʿAjlān.
Their consecutive omission makes this the muʿḍal example.