Sahih Muslim 2229a

Translation

A person from the Ansar who was amongst the Companions of Messenger of Allah ﷺ reported to me: As we were sitting during the night with Messenger of Allah ﷺ, a meteor shot gave a dazzling light. Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: What did you say in the pre-Islamic days when there was such a shot (of meteor)? They said: Allah and His Messenger know best (the actual position), but we, however, used to say that that very night a great man had been born and a great man had died, whereupon Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: (These meteors) are shot neither at the death of anyone nor on the birth of anyone. Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, issues Command when He decides to do a thing. Then (the Angels) supporting the Throne sing His glory, then sing the dwellers of heaven who are near to them until this glory of God reaches them who are in the heaven of this world. Then those who are near the supporters of the Throne ask these supporters of the Throne: What your Lord has said? And they accordingly inform them what He says. Then the dwellers of heaven seek information from them until this information reaches the heaven of the world. In this process of transmission (the jinn snatches) what he manages to overhear and he carries it to his friends. And when the Angels see the jinn they attack them with meteors. If they narrate only which they manage to snatch that is correct but they alloy it with lies and make additions to it.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 4601وَعَن ابنِ عبَّاسٍ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ: أَنَّهُمْ بَيْنَا جُلُوسٌ لَيْلَةً مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رُمِيَ بِنَجْمٍ وَاسْتَنَا

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2229bJami' at-Tirmidhi 3224Sahih Ibn Hibban 6129Musnad Abi Ya'la 2610

Narrators

1. 1
   Aḥad al-ṣaḥābah

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)
   أَحَدُ الصَّحَابَةِصحابي
   أخبرني
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās

   One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
   أن
3. 3
   ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), a jurist (faqīh), excellent and well knownd. 72 AH, or 74 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍثقة ثبت عابد ، فقيه فاضل مشهور
   حدثني
4. 4
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   ابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
5. 5
   Ṣāliḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), jurist (faqīh)d. after 130 AH, or after 140 AH
   صَالِحٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه
   عن
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
   أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Yaʿqūb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
   يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ )ثقة فاضل .
   حدثني
8. 8
   ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
   وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
9. 9
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Mishkat al-Masabih 4601