English translation
4800. Narrated Abū Hurairah رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ: Allāh's Prophet ﷺ said, "When Allāh decrees some order in the heaven, the angels flutter their wings indicating complete surrender to His Saying, which sounds like chains being dragged on rock. And when the (state of) fear is banished from their (angels') hearts they (angels) say, 'What is it that your Lord has said?' They say: 'The truth, and He is the Most High, the Most Great.'" (V.34:23) Then the stealthy listeners (devils) hear this order and these stealthy listeners are like this, one over the other, (Sufyān, a subnarrator demonstrated that by holding his hand upright and separating the fingers). A stealthy listener hears a word which he will convey to that which is below him and the second will convey it to that who is below him, till the last of them will convey it to the wizard or foreteller. Sometimes a flame (fire) may strike the devil before he can convey it, and sometimes he may convey it before the flame (fire) strikes him, whereupon the wizard adds to that word a hundred lies. The people will then say, 'Didn't he (i.e., magician) tell such and such a thing on such and such date?' So that magician is said to have told the truth because of the Statement which has been heard from the heavens."