Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim 179a
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى، قَالَ قَامَ فِينَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِخَمْسِ كَلِمَاتٍ فَقَالَ " إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لاَ يَنَامُ وَلاَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَنَامَ يَخْفِضُ الْقِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ يُرْفَعُ إِلَيْهِ عَمَلُ اللَّيْلِ قَبْلَ عَمَلِ النَّهَارِ وَعَمَلُ النَّهَارِ قَبْلَ عَمَلِ اللَّيْلِ حِجَابُهُ النُّورُ - وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ النَّارُ - لَوْ كَشَفَهُ لأَحْرَقَتْ سُبُحَاتُ وَجْهِهِ مَا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ بَصَرُهُ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ " . - وَفِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ وَلَمْ يَقُلْ حَدَّثَنَا .
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shayba and Abu Kurayb narrated to us; they said: Abu Mu‘awiya narrated to us: al-A‘mash narrated to us, from ‘Amr ibn Murra, from Abu ‘Ubayda, from Abu Musa, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood among us and told us five things. He said: “Allah, Mighty and Majestic, does not sleep, and it is not fitting for Him to sleep. He lowers the balance and raises it. The deeds of the night are raised to Him before the deeds of the day, and the deeds of the day before the deeds of the night. His veil is light”—in Abu Bakr’s narration, “fire.” “Were He to unveil it, the radiance of His Face would consume all of His creation as far as His sight reaches.” Abu Bakr’s narration from al-A‘mash does not include the words “he narrated to us.”
Translation notes
The source explicitly preserves a variant reading, ‘fire,’ in Abu Bakr’s narration instead of ‘light.’