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The greatness of the creation of certain angels

No. ٤٠٥chapter #1vol. 8 · page 272
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عَنْهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ زِيَادٍ الْقَنْدِيِّ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ بْنِ أَبِي مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ:

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إِنَّ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَلَكاً مَا بَيْنَ شَحْمَةِ أُذُنِهِ إِلَى عَاتِقِهِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ خَفَقَانِ الطَّيْرِ.

Read English translationMuhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn

405. From him, from one of his companions, from Ziyad Al-Qindy, from Durust Bin Abu Mansour, from a man, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said that: ‘Allah (azwj) has an Angel, whose span between his ear lobe to his shoulder is of five hundred years of the travel distance of a bird’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

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  • لم يخرجهShaykh Baqir al-BehbudiSahih al-Kafi
  • ضعيفAllamah Baqir al-MajlisiMirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/278)
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