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446. Abū Hurairah narrated that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: “Allāh, Blessed and Exalted is He, descends to the earth's heaven every night when the first third of the night has passed. He says: ‘I am the Sovereign. Is there any who calls upon Me so that I may respond to him? Is there any who asks of Me that I may give him? Is there any who seeks forgiveness from Me so that I may forgive him?’ He continues in that until the illumination of Al-Fajr.” (Ṣaḥīh)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from ‘Alī bin Abī Tālib, Abū Sa‘eed, Rifā‘ah Al-Juhnī, Jubair bin Muṭ'im, Ibn Mas'ūd, Abū Ad-Dardā', and ‘Uthmān bin Abī Al-‘Āṣ.
Abū 'Eisā said: The Hadīth of Abū Hurairah is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīh Hadīth.
This Hadīth has been reported through many routes from Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ.
And it has been reported from him that he ﷺ said: “Allāh, Blessed and Exalted is He, descends when the
last third of the night remains.”
And this is the most correct of the narrations.
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Commentary
1. It is proven from this Hadīth that Allāh the Blessed, the Highest descends to the worldly heaven in the last third of every night and He listens and announces the acceptance of the supplications and requests of the needy; therefore we should benefit fully from this time of mercy and blessing.
2. The descending of Allāh the Most High is as suits His Majesty and Highness, and this is the reality of any of His attributes. As it is out of our intellect and capability to know the reality of His Self and the condition of Him, likewise it is impossible for us to know the reality and condition of any of His attribute. Therefore we believe in all the attributes of Allāh like the attribute of his descending without making resemblance to the created, without explaining the condition, without denying the Attributes and without making metaphorical explanations.
3. The linguistic meaning of descending is known but its condition, form and reality is unknown; so we refer the knowledge of condition to Allāh. The four A'immah, the majority of the Ṣalaf, the Companions, the successors and the successors of the successors had the same Faith and view; this is also the view of Hāfīz Ibn Taimiyyah, there is no difference between his view and that of the majority of the Ṣalaf.
