prefer me over Moses, for the people will swoon (fall unconscious) on the Day of Resurrection, and I will be the first to recover. I will find Moses holding onto one of the sides of the Throne; I do not know if he was among those who swooned and recovered before me, or if he was among those whom Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, exempted."

Sahih. Agreed upon. Narrated by al-Bukhari (8/134, 9/170), Muslim in (al-Fada'il, h/160-162), Abu Dawud (h/4671), Ahmad (2/164), Mushkil (1/445), Mukhtasar al-'Uluw (108), al-Mishkat (5708), al-Nubuwwah (5/492), al-Shifa' (1/439), al-Kanz (32375), Manahil al-Safa (22/35), Bidayah (1/284), and Ma'ani (4/316).

1563: 8960: Emerald (zumurrud): 1: Tafsir al-Qurtubi: (4/2717).

: 8961: The Pen (al-qalam): 2: The Hafiz Abu Nu'aym narrated from 'Amr ibn Dinar, who said: It reached me that Moses ibn 'Imran, the Prophet of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), fasted for forty nights. When he cast down the tablets, they broke, so he fasted a similar number, and they were returned to him. (Tafsir al-Qurtubi: 4/2717).

1565: 8969: A thing (shay'): 1: Al-Qurtubi said regarding the saying of the Almighty: "...as a lesson and explanation for all things"—meaning: for everything they were commanded to do regarding the rulings, for they did not possess ijtihad (independent legal reasoning); that was exclusively reserved for the Ummah of Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace).

1566: 8973: With power (bi-quwwah): 1: Surah Maryam, verse: 12.

: 8977: The Hereafter (al-akhirah): 2: Tafsir Mujahid: (1/246).

: 8980: The defiantly disobedient (al-fasiqin): 3: Tafsir al-Thawri: (p. 114).

: 8981: The defiantly disobedient (al-fasiqin): 4: Al-Kalbi said: "The dwelling of the defiantly disobedient"—that which they passed by when...