Then I asked him, “What are you, a jinn or a human?” He said, “A jinn.” I said to him, “Show me your hand.” So he showed me his hand, and it looked like a dog’s paw with dog’s fur. He said: I greeted him with salams and he returned my greeting. So he kept guard on it one night and saw a beast that looked like an adolescent boy. He used to check on it and found that the number was decreasing.

It was narrated from `Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Ka`b that his father told him that he had a vessel in which he kept dates. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, it has a tongue and two lips, and it glorifies the Sovereign (i.e., Allah) at the foot of the Throne.” He said, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He repeated it several times, then he said, “ Ayat Al-Kursi.” The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Congratulations upon your knowledge, Abul-Mundhir. It was reported from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) that “It is the greatest verse in the Book of Allah.” It was narrated from Ubayy ibn Ka`b that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him which verse in the Book of Allah was the greatest. This is Ayat Al-Kursi, which has a high status. Imam Ibn Kathir (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his Tafseer of Ayat Al-Kursi: Being the masters of eloquence and rhetoric, they failed to produce anything like it. It was a challenge for them to produce the like of the shortest surah or chapter of it. The Glorious Qur’an is the miracle revealed by Allah to His Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in the language of his people, the Arabs, who were the masters of the Arabic language.

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