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(2). 3278. Ash-Sha'bī said: "Ibn 'Abbās met Ka'b at 'Arafāt, so he asked him about something and he kept on saying the Takbīr until it reverberated off of the mountains. So Ibn 'Abbās (finally) said: 'We are Banū Hāshim.' So Ka'b said: 'Indeed Allāh divided His being seen and His speaking between Muḥammad and Mūsā. He spoke to Mūsā two times, and Muḥammad saw Him two times.' Masrūq said: 'I entered upon 'Āishah and asked her if Muḥammad saw his Lord.' She said: 'You have said something that makes my hair stand on end.' I said: 'Take it easy.' Then I recited: Indeed he saw of the great signs of his Lord.[1] So she said: 'What do you mean by that? That is only Jibra'il. Whoever informed you that Muḥammad saw his Lord, or that he (ﷺ) concealed something he was ordered with, or he knew of the five things about which Allāh [Most High] said: Verily Allāh, with Him is the knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain[2] – then he has fabricated the worst lie. Rather he ﷺ saw Jibra'il, but he did not see him in his (real)
image except two times. One time at Sīdat Al-Muntahā and one time in Jiyād, he had six-hundred wings which filled the horizon.” (Da‘if)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] Dāwūd bin Abī Hind reported similar to this Hadīth from Ash-Sha‘bī, from Masrūq, from ‘Aīshah, from the Prophet ﷺ. The narration of Dāwūd is shorter than the narration of Mujālīd.
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Footnotes
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[1] An-Najm 53:18.
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[2] Luqmān 31:34.
Commentary
‘Aīshah and Ibn Ma’sūd, may Allāh be pleased with both of them, are not of the view that the Prophet saw Allāh ﷺ. ‘Abdullāh bin Abbās holds the opinion of the Prophet seeing Allāh ﷺ. (Al-Kawākib Ad-Darārī vol.4, p. 285; the details of this have been mentioned in Sūrat Al-An‘ām)
