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(3). 3224. Ibn 'Abbās narrated: "We were with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, while he was sitting with a group of his Companions, when they saw a glowing shooting star. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'When you saw the likes of this during Jāhiliyyah, what would you say about it?' They said: 'We would say that a great man had died, or that a great man had been born.' The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'It is not shot due to the death of anyone, nor his coming into life. Rather when our Lord [Blessed is His Name and Most High] decrees a matter, He is glorified by the bearers of the Throne. Then He is glorified by the inhabitants who are below them, then those below them, until such glorification reaches this Heaven. Then the inhabitants of the sixth Heaven ask the inhabitants of the seventh Heaven: "What did your Lord say?" He said: 'So they inform them; then the inhabitants of each Heaven seek the information, until the news is conveyed to the inhabitants of the Heavens of the earth. The Shayātīn try to overhear so they are shot at, so they cast it down to their friends. Whatever
they came with is true, as it is, but they distort it and add to it.” (Sahīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Sahīh. This Hadīth has been reported from Az-Zuhri, from 'Alī bin Ḥusain, from Ibn 'Abbās, from men among the Anṣār, that they said: “We were with the Prophet ﷺ.” [So he mentioned similar in meaning. This was narrated to us by Al-Ḥusain bin Ḥuraith (he said): “Al-Walid bin Muslim narrated to us: Al-Awzā'ī narrated to us.”]
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The decision made above in the heavens, as it reaches the worldly heaven stage after stage; the devils struggle to listen to it secretly. In case, if they catch something of it which is correct, which the devils pass to the fortune-tellers and the sorcerers and then they, from themselves, add lies into it, as mentioned in a narration (no. 4805) of Sahīh Al-Bukhārī. Devils do so, when they escape the target of the flaming fire of piercing brightness.
