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tabarani:12565Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī > Jumhūr b. Manṣūr > Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid > Mujālid > al-Shaʿbī > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] He used to say in his statement {And he has certainly seen him in the clear horizon}, "I mean Jibril (Gabriel), ﷺ , that Muhammad, ﷺ , saw him in the form near the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary."  

الطبراني:١٢٥٦٥حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا جُمْهُورُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مُجَالِدٍ عَنْ مُجَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي قَوْلِهِ {وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ بِالْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينِ} «إِنَّمَا أَعْنِي جِبْرِيلَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا ﷺ رَآهُ فِي صُورَةٍ عِنْدَ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى»