And ʿAbd of Banū al-Ḥasḥās said:
Convey for me to her, I adjure you by God, O young man,
with the token that she came to us swaying gently. (1)
He means by that: Convey to her my message. Thus, the angels were named malāʾika (angels) after message (risāla), because they are the messengers of God between Him and His prophets, and whoever of His servants they are sent to.
The discourse regarding the interpretation of the statement of Exalted be His Praise: {Indeed, I am making in the earth}
The people of interpretation differed regarding His statement, "Indeed, I am making," where some of them said: Indeed, I am doing.
- Mention of those who said that:
597- Al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us, he said: Al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, he said: Ḥajjāj narrated to me, from Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim and Mubārak, from al-Ḥasan and Abū Bakr—meaning al-Hudhalī—from al-Ḥasan and Qatāda, they said: God, exalted be His mention, said to His angels: "Indeed, I am making in the earth a successor," (2) He said to them: Indeed, I am doing. (3)
Notes
- (1) Discussion of this verse preceded previously: 106 above.
- (2) In the printed edition: "Allah said to the angels: Indeed I...", which agrees with what Ibn Kathīr transmitted.
- (3) Narration: 597—Transmitted by Ibn Kathīr 1: 127 from al-Ṭabarī. An omission occurred in its chain of transmission there, and it appears to be a typographical error. Al-Suyūṭī mentioned it 1: 44 in abridged form. It will come again: 611 at length, with this exact chain of transmission. Here it is narrated with two chains of transmission—or rather three: al-Ḥajjāj—who is Ibn al-Minhāl—narrated it from Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and from al-Mubārak—who is Ibn Faḍāla—then he narrated it from Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī, all three from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. The first two chains of transmission are good, while the third is weak (ḍaʿīf) due to the weakness of Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī. Ibn al-Madīnī weakened him severely, and Ibn Maʿīn said: "He is nothing." Al-Bukhārī gave his biography in al-Kabīr 2/2/199 under the name "Sulmā Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī al-Baṣrī" and said: "He is not a memorizer in their view. ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī said: I deliberately turned away from Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī." Likewise, Ibn Abī Ḥātim gave his biography 2/1/313–314 and demonstrated his weakness. "Sulmā" is with a ḍamma on the sīn and a sukūn on the lām, with imāla of the alif maqṣūra.
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