Muhammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Ahmasī narrated to us: Zayd ibn al-Hubāb al-‘Uklī narrated to us, from ‘Abd al-Wahhāb ibn Mujāhid, from his father, who said concerning the words of the Most High, “In a Preserved Tablet”:

“It is five hundred years’ journey in length. If Allah wills some matter on earth, whether revelation or something else, it is lowered before Isrāfīl’s neck. He looks into it, then conveys the revelation to Gabriel, peace be upon him, with veils between them. Between Allah and His creation are seventy veils: light, darkness, water