Abu Ayesha, there are three things which, if anyone speaks of even one of them, he has uttered a tremendous lie against Allah.Whoever claims that Muhammad saw his Lord has uttered a tremendous lie against Allah, for Allah says, "No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision. He is the Most Subtle, the All-Aware" [Anam 6:103], and "It is not fitting for Allah to speak to any human being except by revelation, or from behind a veil" [Shura 42:51].I had been reclining, but I sat up and said, "Umm Muiminin, give me a moment and do not rush me. Does Allah the Exalted not say, "And indeed he saw him at another descent" [Najm 53:13], and "And indeed he saw him on the clear horizon" [Takwir 81:23]?"She replied, "By Allah, I was the first of this community to ask the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about this. He said, 'That was only Jibreel. I never saw him in the form in which he was created except on those two occasions. I saw him descending from the sky, his immense form filling everything between the sky and the earth.'Whoever claims that Muhammad concealed anything of what Allah revealed to him has uttered a tremendous lie against Allah, for Allah says, "Messenger, convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord" [Maidah 5:67].And whoever claims that he knows what will happen tomorrow has uttered a tremendous lie against Allah, for Allah says, "Say, none in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen except Allah" [Naml 27:65]."
حدثنا أحمد بن منيع حدثنا إسحق بن يوسف حدثنا داود بن أبي هند عن الشعبي عن مسروق قال كنت متكئا عند
يا أبا عائشة ثلاث من تكلم بواحدة منهن فقد أعظم على الله الفرية من زعم أن محمدا رأى ربه فقد أعظم الفرية على الله والله يقول {لا تدركه الأبصار وهو يدرك الأبصار وهو اللطيف الخبير} {وما كان لبشر أن يكلمه الله إلا وحيا أو من وراء حجاب} وكنت متكئا فجلست فقلت يا أم المؤمنين أنظريني ولا تعجليني أليس يقول الله تعالى {ولقد رآه نزلة أخرى} {ولقد رآه بالأفق المبين} قالت أنا والله أول من سأل عن هذا رسول الله ﷺ قال إنما ذاك جبريل ما رأيته في الصورة التي خلق فيها غير هاتين المرتين رأيته منهبطا من السماء سادا عظم خلقه ما بين السماء والأرض ومن زعم أن محمدا كتم شيئا مما أنزل الله عليه فقد أعظم الفرية على الله يقول الله {يا أيها الرسول بلغ ما أنزل إليك من ربك} ومن زعم أنه يعلم ما في غد فقد أعظم الفرية على الله والله يقول {قل لا يعلم من في السموات والأرض الغيب إلا الله}
Agreed upon by Bukhari and Muslim. Muslim narrated it in the Book of Faith, chapter on the meaning of Allah's statement , "And he certainly saw him in another descent"... to the end, hadith 177, from the narration of Dawud, and Bukhari, hadith 4855, from the narration of Shaybi, with this wording.