Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 3288
قَالَ وَقَالَ اللَّيْثُ حَدَّثَنِي خَالِدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِلاَلٍ، أَنَّ أَبَا الأَسْوَدِ، أَخْبَرَهُ عُرْوَةُ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " الْمَلاَئِكَةُ تَتَحَدَّثُ فِي الْعَنَانِ ـ وَالْعَنَانُ الْغَمَامُ ـ بِالأَمْرِ يَكُونُ فِي الأَرْضِ، فَتَسْمَعُ الشَّيَاطِينُ الْكَلِمَةَ، فَتَقُرُّهَا فِي أُذُنِ الْكَاهِنِ، كَمَا تُقَرُّ الْقَارُورَةُ، فَيَزِيدُونَ مَعَهَا مِائَةَ كَذِبَةٍ ".
He (the transmitter) said: Al-Layth said: Khalid ibn Yazid narrated to me, from Saʿid ibn Abi Hilal, that Abu al-Aswad was informed by ʿUrwa, from ʿAʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her), from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: ‘The angels converse among the clouds—the clouds are al-ʿanan—about what is to occur on earth. The devils hear a word and convey it into the soothsayer’s ear, as something is poured into a bottle, then add a hundred lies to it.’
Translation notes
Preserved the explanatory gloss identifying al-ʿanan as clouds and the simile of pouring into a bottle.