Volume 4, Book 54, Number 458:
Narrated Masruq:
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 4 > BOOK 54: BEGINNING OF CREATION
I asked Aisha “What about His Statement:– “Then he (Gabriel) approached And came closer, And
was at a distance Of but two bow-lengths Or (even) nearer?” (53.8-9) She replied, “It was Gabriel
who used to come to the Prophet in the figure of a man, but on that occasion, he came in his actual
and real figure and (he was so huge) that he covered the whole horizon.”