ibn Kathīr al-Anbarī: My father narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mubārak, from Abū Wā’il, from Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Gabriel, peace be upon him, came to me, and there in his palm was something like the clearest of mirrors