the addition, though he omits the words “the Most High, the Most Great.” The same wording is found in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr 10363.

Sixth: Sulaymān al-Shaybānī related that he heard Zir ibn Hubaysh report from ʿAbd Allāh who said about the verse, “Indeed, he saw some of the greatest signs of his Lord” (al-Najm 53:18): “He saw Gabriel in his true form; he had six hundred wings.”
Recorded by Muslim 282 and al-Ṭabarānī 9055.

In another narration in Muslim 281, the verse quoted is “The heart did not lie about what it saw” (al-Najm 53:11) in place of the previous verse.

A third version—reported by him, by al-Bukhārī 4857, and by al-Tirmidhī 3277, who declared it sound—comes through the route of al-Shaybānī: “I asked Zir ibn Hubaysh about the words of Allah, ‘Then he drew near and came down, till he was at a distance of two bow-lengths or nearer’ (al-Najm 53:9). He replied, ‘Ibn Masʿūd informed me of it…’” The same wording appears in Ibn Jarīr 27/46 and Aḥmad 1/398.

Another narration of his—Aḥmad 1/412 and 460, and Ibn Jarīr 27/49—runs through Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, from Zir, from Ibn Masʿūd that he