Ḥafṣ b. ʿĀṣim is a Successor; the first route does not name a Companion and is therefore treated here as mursal. The second explicitly names Abū Hurayrah and is connected.
Muʿādh b. Muʿādh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī and Ghundar (Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar) transmitted the mursal form through Shuʿbah, while the connected route of ʿAlī b. Ḥafṣ names Abū Hurayrah after Ḥafṣ b. ʿĀṣim. Sunan Abī Dāwūd also preserves both forms: a mursal route through Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar al-Numayrī and a connected route through ʿAlī b. Ḥafṣ. Al-Dāraquṭnī preferred the mursal version, whereas al-Nawawī accepted the established connection on his stated reasoning about a trustworthy addition (ziyādat al-thiqah). The greater number of mursal routes is not by itself decisive against a reliably established link; each addition must be assessed against transmitter reliability, precision and the competing evidence.