a finger, the earth upon a finger, the mountains and trees upon a finger, and the water, soil, and the rest of creation upon a finger. Then He will shake them and say, “I am the King.”’ He said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, laughed in affirmation of the scholar’s statement, then recited, ‘They have not esteemed Allah as He deserves’”—the verse.

Also in the two Sahīh collections, Abū Hurayrah reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“Allah will grasp the earth on the Day of Resurrection and roll up the heaven in His right hand. Then He will say, ‘I am the King. Where are the kings of the earth?’ Then He will say, ‘Where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?’”

Likewise, the two Sahīh collections contain the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar:

“Allah will roll up the heavens on the Day of Resurrection, then take them in His right hand and say, ‘I am the King. Where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?’”

In one wording recorded by Muslim, he said:

“The Compeller, blessed and exalted is He, takes His heavens and His earth in both His hands, then begins closing and opening them and says, ‘I am the King. I am the Compeller, and I am the King. Where are the tyrants? Where are the arrogant?’ The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, leaned to his right and to his left, until I saw the pulpit moving from its very base, so much so that I wondered, ‘Will it fall with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, upon it?’”

In the Sunan collections, ʿAwf ibn Mālik al-Ashjaʿī said:

“One night I stood in prayer with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He stood and recited Sūrat al-Baqarah. Whenever he came to a verse mentioning mercy, he paused and asked for it; whenever he came to a verse mentioning punishment, he paused and sought refuge.”

He continued: “Then he bowed for as long as he had stood, saying while bowing, ‘Glory be to the Possessor of might, dominion, majesty, and greatness.’ Then he prostrated for as long as he had stood, saying the same during his prostration. Then he stood and recited Āl ʿImrān, then recited a surah.”

This was narrated by Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Tirmidhī in al-Shamāʾil.

Thus, in this hadith he said: “Glory be to the Possessor of