A group of Jews came to the Prophet of Allah ﷺ one day and said, "Now tell us which angel is your patron, for based on that we will either join you or part from you."He replied, "My patron is Jibreel , and Allah has never sent a prophet except that Jibreel was his patron."They said, "Then we part from you. Had your patron been any other angel, we would have followed you and believed you."He asked, "What prevents you from believing him?"They answered, "He is our enemy."At that, Allah
revealed, "Say, whoever is an enemy to Jibreel, it is he who has brought it down upon your heart by Allah's permission" up to His saying
, "They cast the Book of Allah behind their backs as though they did not know" [Baqarah 2:97–101]. And then, "so they drew upon themselves wrath upon wrath".
حضرت عصابة من اليهود النبي الله ﷺ يوما فقالوا:… وأنت الآن فحدثنا من وليك من الملائكة فعندها نجامعك أو نفارقك؟ قال: فإن وليي جبريل عليه السلام ولم يبعث الله نبيا قط إلا وهو وليه قالوا: فعندها نفارقك، لو كان وليك سواه من الملائكة لتابعناك وصدقناك، قال: فما يمنعكم من أن تصدقوه؟ قالوا: إنه عدونا، قال: فعند ذلك قال الله عز وجل: {قل من كان عدو الجبريل فإنه نزله على قلبك بإذن الله} إلى قوله عز وجل: {كتب الله وراء ظهورهم كأنهم لا يعلمون} فعند ذلك {فباءو بغضب على غضب}
Ahmad (2514) narrated it from Hashim bin Qasim, who said, Abdul-Hameed told us, Shahr told us, Ibn Abbas said, and then he related it. Abdul-Hameed is Ibn Bahram Fazari, the companion of Shahr bin Hawshab, and he is truthful. Shahr is Ibn Hawshab, about whom there is disagreement. The overall content is corroborated in a narration that Imam Ahmad related (2483) through another route, from Abdullah bin Walid, from Bukayr bin Shihab, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, who related it. In it is Bukayr bin Shihab Kufi, whom Ibn Hibban deemed reliable, while Abu Hatim said, "A sheikh," and Dhahabi said, "Truthful." The hadith has already been mentioned in full in the Book of Faith, in the chapter on what has been reported that Jibreel was an ally of the Prophet ﷺ and an ally of all the prophets.