and in the two Sahih collections it is narrated from ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—that al-Hārith ibn Hishām said, “Messenger of Allah, how does revelation (wahy) come to you?” He replied, “Sometimes it reaches me like the ringing of a bell, and that is the hardest for me. When it subsides, I have retained what was said. At other times the angel appears to me in the form of a man, speaks to me, and I comprehend what he says.” ʿĀʾishah added, “I have seen it descend upon him on an extremely cold day; yet when it left him, his brow was streaming with sweat.”

When Moses—peace be upon him—heard the speech of Allah, he felt aversion toward human beings on account of what had settled in his hearing of Allah’s words, and light would shine upon his face until it was