Azami 17

Abu Dawud (4738) narrated it from Ahmad bin Abu Siraj Razi, Ali bin Husayn bin Ibrahim, and Ali bin Muslim, who said, "Abu Muawiya narrated to us, Amash narrated to us, from Muslim, from Masruq, from Abdullah," and he related it.Ibn Khuzayma narrated it in Kitab Tawhid (280), and Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (37), both through the route of Ali bin Husayn bin Ibrahim alone, with a similar chain. Muslim here is Ibn Subayh Hamdani.It has also been narrated as mawquf, attributed to Abdullah bin Masud. Ibn Khuzayma narrated it through routes other than these from Abu Muawiya. The ruling belongs to whoever narrated it as marfu, because they carry additional knowledge, and moreover something like this cannot be known except through revelation. Ibn Masud used to mention this hadith in the tafsir of Allah's saying, "until, when terror is lifted from their hearts" [Saba 34:23]. Perhaps he himself would sometimes narrate it as marfu and sometimes as mawquf, depending on the situation, for was extremely cautious about attributing any hadith to the Prophet ﷺ as marfu.Bukhari mentioned it as a suspended narration (13/452–453), from Masruq, from Abdullah bin Masud.As for what is narrated from Nawas bin Saman Kilabi, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When Allah intends to reveal a matter, He speaks with revelation. When He speaks, the heavens are seized by a trembling out of fear of Allah . When the inhabitants of the heavens hear this, they fall unconscious and collapse prostrate. The first to raise his head is Jibreel, peace be upon him, and Allah speaks to him with the revelation He intends. Jibreel then proceeds with it past the angels, and every time he passes by a heaven, its inhabitants ask, 'What did our Lord say, O Jibreel?' Jibreel replies, 'He spoke the truth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.' Then they all say what Jibreel said, until Jibreel reaches wherever Allah has commanded him, whether in the heaven or the earth."This is daif. Ibn Abu Asim narrated it in Sunnah (515), Muhammad bin Nasr Marwazi in Tazim Qadr Salah (1/236), Abu Shaykh in Azamah (2/501), Bayhaqi in Asma wa Sifat (435), and Ibn Khuzayma in Kitab Tawhid (279), all through routes from Naeem bin Hammad Marwazi, who said, "Walid bin Muslim narrated to us, from Abdul-Rahman bin Yazid bin Jabir, from Ibn Abu Zakariya, from Raja bin Hayda, from Nawas bin Saman," and he related something similar.Naeem bin Hammad has weak memory. Walid bin Muslim is a mudallis, who practices tadlis al-taswiya, and he did not explicitly state that he heard it directly.Dhahabi mentioned this hadith in Mizan (4/269), in the biography of Naeem bin Hammad, and quoted Duhaym as saying, "It has no basis."Abu Shaykh also narrated it through another route from Amr bin Malik Rasibi, who said, "Walid bin Muslim narrated to us," who said, "Abdul-Rahman bin Yazid bin Jabir narrated to us," with a similar chain.This Amr bin Malik is extremely daif, and he has been accused of stealing hadiths. Perhaps this is one of the hadiths he stole from Walid bin Muslim, since Ibn Kathir, in his tafsir of Surah Saba, quoted Abu Hatim as saying, "This hadith is not found in Syria from Walid bin Muslim."