423- Naṣr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azdī narrated to me, he said: Muḥammad ibn Yaʿlā narrated to us, from Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Baṣrī, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, he said: Thunder is an Angel entrusted with the clouds, driving them as the camel-driver drives camels, glorifying God. Whenever one cloud goes against another, he shouts at it, and when his anger intensifies, fire flies from his mouth; these are the thunderbolts that you see (1).

424- I was narrated from al-Minjāb ibn al-Ḥārith, he said: Bishr ibn ʿUmāra narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: Thunder is an Angel among the angels whose name is Thunder, and he is the one whose voice you hear.

425- Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ahwāzī narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ḥusayn narrated to us, from al-Suddī, from Abū Mālik, from Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: Thunder is an Angel driving the clouds with Glorification (Tasbih) and Takbir (2).

426- And al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, he said: ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿAbbās, he said: Thunder is the name of an Angel, and this voice of his is his Glorification (Tasbih). When his driving of the clouds intensifies, the clouds churn and rub together, so thunderbolts emerge from between them.

427- al-Ḥasan narrated to us, he said: ʿAffān narrated to us, he said: Abū ʿAwāna narrated to us, from