The shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—was asked about Adam:

“When Allah created him, breathed into him of His spirit, and made His angels prostrate to him, did the angels of heaven and earth prostrate, or only the angels of earth? Were Gabriel and Michael among those who prostrated? Was the garden in which he dwelt the Paradise of Eternity, which already exists, or a garden on earth that Allah created for him? When he was sent down, was he sent down from heaven to earth, or from one land to another, as with the Children of Israel?”

He replied:

All praise is due to Allah. Rather, He made all the angels prostrate to him, as the Quran expressly states in His words, exalted is He:

“So the angels prostrated, all of them together.”

These are three expressions affirming universality and exhaustive inclusion. His words “the angels” encompass all the angels, for a collective noun made definite by the definite article denotes universality. Thus, in His words, “Lord of the angels and the Spirit,” He is the Lord of all the angels.

The second expression is “all of them,” which is among the strongest expressions of universality.

The third is His word “together,” which reinforces that universality. Whoever says that not all the angels prostrated to him, but only the angels of earth, has rejected the Quran