the ark of the animals was the grain weevil, and the last of what he carried was the donkey." I said: "He brought in the donkey, and when its chest entered, Iblis clung to its tail so its hind legs could not get in. Noah began to say: 'Woe to you, enter!' but it would bray and could not. Finally, Noah said: 'Woe to you, enter, even if the Devil is with you.' He said a word that slipped from his tongue.

10493 - Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj told us, 'Ubayd Allah ibn Musa told us, from Isra'il, from al-Suddi, from Abu Malik regarding the ark, he said: "Noah's ark, he carried in it two of every pair."

His saying, the Almighty: "And We made them successors"

10494 - Ahmad ibn 'Uthman ibn Hakim informed us in what he wrote to me, Ahmad ibn Mufaddal, from Asbat, from al-Suddi regarding His saying: "Successors in the earth," he said: "As for successors in the earth, He destroyed the generations and made us successors in it after them."

10495 - Abu Yazid al-Qaratisi informed us in what he wrote to me, he said: I heard Asbagh ibn al-Faraj, I heard 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd saying regarding His saying: "It is He who made you successors in the earth," he said: "He makes one people succeed another in the earth."

His saying, the Almighty: "And We drowned those who denied Our signs. So see how was the outcome of the warned ones"

10496 - Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas, the freed slave of the Banu Hashim, told us, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Salamah Abu Zuhayr told us, from a man among his companions, he said: "It reached me that the people of Noah lived in that drowning for forty days."

10497 - Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas, the freed slave of the Banu Hashim, told us, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Salamah told us, Salamah told us, Muhammad ibn Ishaq told us, he said: "The earth and what was upon it was submerged, and the water reached its limit, and the water did not exceed its own reach. The water stayed when Allah sent it for one hundred and fifty days, as the People of the Torah claim. Thus, between the time Allah sent the flood and the time it subsided was six months and ten nights. When Allah willed to stop that, He sent a wind over the surface of the water, so the water calmed, and the springs of the great deep and the gates of the heaven were sealed. The water began to diminish, recede, and withdraw. The ark came to rest on al-Judi, as the People of the Torah claim, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth night that had passed of it. And on the first day of the tenth month, he saw the tops of the mountains. When there had passed after..."