Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 3235

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّاءُ بْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ الأَشْوَعِ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ فَأَيْنَ قَوْلُهُ ‏‏{‏ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّى * فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى‏}‏ قَالَتْ ذَاكَ جِبْرِيلُ كَانَ يَأْتِيهِ فِي صُورَةِ الرَّجُلِ، وَإِنَّهُ أَتَاهُ هَذِهِ الْمَرَّةَ فِي صُورَتِهِ الَّتِي هِيَ صُورَتُهُ، فَسَدَّ الأُفُقَ‏.‏

Translation

Muhammad ibn Yusuf narrated to me: Abu Usama narrated to us: Zakariyya ibn Abi Zaʾida narrated to us, from Ibn al-Ashwaʿ, from al-Shaʿbi, from Masruq, who said: I said to ʿAʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her), ‘Then what of His saying, “Then he drew near and came closer, until he was at a distance of two bow-lengths or nearer”?’ She said: ‘That was Gabriel. He used to come to him in the form of a man, but this time he came to him in his own form, the form that was truly his, and filled the horizon.’