Maybe in his post-deth state he forgot about Sam simply because he hadn't been mentioned. I mean he'd seen Merry and Pippin with Treebeard, and he'd seen Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli by this point and Frodo was the most important member of the Fellowship and it's a little unlikely that Gandalf would forget about the Ring. Sam at the time when Gandlaf left was pretty inconsequential so he could have been surprised at the memory of Sam.
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