The greatness of the creation of certain angels
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 405
عَنْهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ زِيَادٍ الْقَنْدِيِّ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ بْنِ أَبِي مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ إِنَّ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَلَكاً مَا بَيْنَ شَحْمَةِ أُذُنِهِ إِلَى عَاتِقِهِ مَسِيرَةُ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ خَفَقَانِ الطَّيْرِ.
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 عليه الصلاة والسلام having said that: ‘Allah عز وجل has an Angel, whose span between his ear lobe to his shoulder is of five hundred years of the travel distance of a bird’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/278)
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