Sunan Ibn Majah 194

Translation

The Prophet said: "When Allah decrees a matter in heaven, the angels beat their wings in submission to his decree (with a sound) like a chain beating a rock. Then "When fear is banished from their hearts, they say: 'What is it that your Lord has said?' They say: 'The truth. And He is The Most High, The Most Great." He said: 'Then the eavesdroppers (from among the jinn) listen out for that, one above the other, so (one of them) hears the words and passes it on to the one beneath him. The Shihab (shooting star) may strike him before he can pass it on to the one beneath him and the latter can pass it on to the soothsayer or sorcerer, or it may not strike him until he has passed it on. And he ads one hundred lies to it, and only that word which was overheard from the heavens is true."

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• Dāraquṭnī

  ورواه أحمد بن عبدة وأبو معمر عن ابن عيينة وقالا عنه عن عمرو عن عكرمة قال أنبا أبو هريرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الحديث وهو الصحيح

  machine translationIt was also narrated by Aḥmad b. ʿAbdah and Abū Maʿmar from Ibn ʿUyaynah, and the two of them said from him: from ʿAmr, from ʿIkrimah, who said: Abū Hurayrah informed us from the Prophet ﷺ, and then the hadith. And this is the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) version. Report a problem

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 200

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 4701Sahih al-Bukhari 4800Sahih al-Bukhari 7481Sunan Abi Dawud 4738Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3223Sahih Ibn Hibban 37

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿIkrimah mawlá Ibn ʿAbbās

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), knowledgeable in Qurʾānic exegesis; the claim that Ibn ʿUmar called him a liar is not established, and no innovation is established from him.d. Ibn al-Madīnī said: 104 AH. Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus and others said: 105 AH, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr: 106 AH. Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī and others said: 107 AH. Also reported from al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī, and Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn: 115 AH. And that is a mistake
   عِكْرِمَةَثقة ثبت عالم بالتفسير ، لم يثبت تكذيبه عن ابن عمر ، ولا تثبت عنه بدعة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Dīnār al-Athram

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yaʿqūb b. Ḥumayd b. Kāsib

   truthful (ṣadūq), sometimes had lapses (wahm).d. 240 AH, or 241 AH
   يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍصدوق ، ربما وهم .
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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