ibn al-Ablaḍ, from ʿAlī, he said: Lightning is the instruments of the angels.
440- Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, he said: Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, from Abū Mālik, from al-Suddī, from Ibn ʿAbbās: Lightning is instruments in the hands of the angels, with which they drive the clouds.
441- al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: al-Ḥajjāj narrated to us, he said: Ḥammād narrated to us, from al-Mughīra ibn Sālim, from his father or someone else, that ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib said: Thunder is the angel, and lightning is his striking the cloud with an instrument of iron.
Others said: It is a whip of light with which the angel drives the clouds.
442- I narrated on the authority of al-Minjāb ibn al-Ḥārith, he said: Bishr ibn ʿUmāra narrated to us, from Abū Rawq, from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, from Ibn ʿAbbās, to that effect.
Others said: It is water.
443- It was narrated to us from Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Ahwāzī, 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 with a letter to him, so he wrote to him: "You wrote to me asking about lightning; lightning is water."
444- Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, he said: ʿImrān ibn Maysara narrated to us, he said: Ibn Idrīs narrated to us, from al-Ḥasan ibn al-Furāt, from his father, he said: Ibn ʿAbbās wrote to Abū al-Jald asking him about lightning, and he said: "Lightning is water."
445- Ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us, he said: Jarīr narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, from a man among the Quran reciters of Basra, he said: Ibn ʿAbbās wrote to Abū al-Jald—a man from the people of Hajar—asking him about lightning, so he wrote to him: "You wrote to me asking about lightning; indeed it is from water."
Others said: It is the striking of an angel.
446- Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, he said: Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿUthmān ibn al-Aswad, from Mujāhid, he said: Lightning is the striking of an angel.
447- al-Muthannā narrated to me, he said: Isḥāq narrated to us, he said: Hishām narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī, he said: It reached me that lightning is an angel who has four faces: a face of a human, a face of a bull, a face of an eagle, and a face of a lion; when he strikes with his wings, that is lightning.
448- al-Qāsim narrated to us, he said: al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, from Ibn Jurayj, from Wahb ibn Sulaymān, from Shuʿayb al-Jabāʾī, who said: In the Book of God, the angels who bear the Throne—each angel among them has a face of a human, a bull, and a lion; when they move their wings, it is lightning
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