Sahih al-Bukhari 3215

Translation

Al Harith bin Hisham asked the Prophet, "How does the divine inspiration come to you?" He replied, "In all these ways: The Angel sometimes comes to me with a voice which resembles the sound of a ringing bell, and when this state abandons me, I remember what the Angel has said, and this type of Divine Inspiration is the hardest on me; and sometimes the Angel comes to me in the shape of a man and talks to me, and I understand and remember what he says."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2333bJami' at-Tirmidhi 3634Sunan an-Nasa'i 933Musnad Ahmad 25252Musnad Ahmad 26198al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 1007

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAlī b. Mushir

   trustworthy (thiqah), with some odd reports (gharāʾib) after he went blindd. 189 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍثقة له غرائب بعد ما أضر
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Farwah b. Abī al-Maghrāʾ

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 225 AH
   فَرْوَةُصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.