435- al-Muthannā narrated to us, he said: Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, he said: ʿUmar ibn al-Walīd al-Shannī narrated to us, from ʿIkrima, he said: Thunder is an angel who drives the clouds just as a shepherd drives camels.
436- Saʿd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam narrated to me, he said: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, he said: al-Ḥakam ibn Abān narrated to us, from ʿIkrima, he said: Whenever Ibn ʿAbbās heard thunder, he said: "Glory be to Him Whom you glorify." He said: And he used to say: "Indeed, thunder is an angel who calls out for rain just as a shepherd calls out to his sheep."
Others said: Indeed, thunder is wind trapped under the clouds that ascends, and from it comes that sound.
- Mention of those who said that:
437- Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, he said: Bishr ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from Abū Kathīr, he said: I was with Abū al-Jald when a messenger from Ibn ʿAbbās came to him with a letter, so he wrote to him: "You wrote asking me about thunder; thunder is wind."
438- Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to me, he said: ʿImrān ibn Maysara narrated to us, he said: Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan ibn al-Furāt, from his father, who said: Ibn ʿAbbās wrote
Notes
- (1) ʿUmar b. al-Walīd al-Shannī Abū Salama al-ʿAbdī: reliable, Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, and others declared him reliable, and Abū Ḥātim said: "I do not see any harm in his hadith." He has a biography in al-Taʿjīl: 304, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim 3/1/139. "Al-Shannī": with a fatḥa on the pointed shīn, as in al-Mushtabih: 279. It occurred in the printed edition with an unpointed letter, which is a misspelling.
- (2) Chain of transmission 436 - Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Ḥakam: I did not find a biography for him except in the book of Ibn Abī Ḥātim 2/1/92, and he said: "I heard from him in Mecca and in Egypt, and he is truthful."
- (3) Chain of transmission 437 - It is a problematic chain of transmission. I did not find a biography for "Bishr b. Ismāʿīl", and I do not know who he is. Furthermore, I do not know who "Abū Kathīr" is, the narrator from Abū al-Jald. This chain of transmission will appear again: 443.
- (4) Chain of transmission 438 - ʿImrān b. Maysara al-Minqarī: reliable, one of the sheikhs of al-Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Abū Zurʿa, and Abū Ḥātim. Ibn Idrīs: he is ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs al-Awdī: reliable, trustworthy, an authority. Al-Ḥasan b. al-Furāt: reliable, Muslim recorded for him in his Ṣaḥīḥ. His father: Furāt b. Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qazzāz al-Tamīmī, reliable, the authors of the Six Books recorded for him, but his narration from Ibn ʿAbbās is broken, as he only narrates from the Successors.
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