Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ حُبَابٍ حَدَّثَنِي حُسَيْنٌ حَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ بَهْدَلَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ شَقِيقَ بْنَ سَلَمَةَ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَأَيْتُ جِبْرِيلَ عَلَى سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى وَلَهُ سِتُّ مِائَةِ جَنَاحٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ عَاصِمًا عَنْ الْأَجْنِحَةِ فَأَبَى أَنْ يُخْبِرَنِي قَالَ فَأَخْبَرَنِي بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ أَنَّ الْجَنَاحَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ.
English Translation
Zayd ibn Hubab told us, Husayn told me, Asim ibn Bahdalah told me, who said: I heard Shaqiq ibn Salamah say: I heard Ibn Mas'ud say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "I saw Gabriel at the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary, and he had six hundred wings." He said: "I asked Asim about the wings, but he refused to tell me." He said: "Then some of his companions told me that each wing was the span between the east and the west."
