and follows His messengers, He will admit him to Paradise.
He went on to say: “The Tablet is a slab of white pearl. Its length spans the distance between heaven and earth, and its breadth the distance between east and west. Its margins are of pearl and ruby, its covers of red ruby. Its pen is light, and its writing is light, fastened to the Throne, while its lower end rests in the care of an angel.”
Anas ibn Mālik—along with other early authorities—said: “The Preserved Tablet is on the forehead of Isrāfīl.”
Maqātil said: “It is to the right of the Throne.”
Chapter: Reports Concerning the Creation of the Heavens, the Earth, and What Lies Between Them
Allah, Exalted is He, says:
“All praise belongs to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and made darkness and light; yet those who disbelieve equate others with their Lord.” (Qur’an 6:1)
He, Most High, also says:
“He created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days.” (Qur’an 25:59) —and the same statement occurs in several other verses of the Qur’an.
The commentators have differed regarding the extent of these six days, holding two views. The majority maintain that they are like our present days.
Ibn ʿAbbās, Mujāhid, al-Ḍaḥḥāk, and Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, however, said that each of those days equals one thousand years as you reckon them. This was reported by Ibn Jarīr and Ibn Abī Ḥātim, and Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal adopted this view in his book written in refutation of