Kitaab Sharh us-Sunnah
by Al-Barbahaaree
Trans. Abu Talhah Dawud Burbank


63: An angel descends with every raindrop.

To have Faith that with every raindrop there is an angel who descends with it until he places it where Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has ordered. [1]


NOTES

[1] This is reported as the saying of al-Hakam ibn ‘Utaibah (a taabi’ee who died in 115H), reported by at-Tabaree in his Tafseer (14/19), with a saheeh isnaad. It is also reported as the saying of al-Hasan al-Basree (d.110H) by Abush-Shaikh in al-‘Azamah (no.761), with a hasan isnaad.


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