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The rooster

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'When you hear the crowing of roosters ask God's bounty, for they have seen an angel' — the bird that wakes for dawn and witnesses what we do not see; and Aisha's simile of the cockerel that crows with the roosters.

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The rooster's crow: it saw an angel
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Bukhari 3303 — The rooster's crow: it saw an angel· Muwatta 114

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Angels in Islam (mala'ika)· Evil ones among humans and jinn· The rooster's crow: it saw an angel· Bukhari 3303 — The rooster's crow: it saw an angel· The donkey· Ritual purity· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf

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  • Sahih al-Bukhari
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Angels in Islam (mala'ika)

Belief in the angels is a pillar of faith in Sunni creed. The Encyclopaedia of Islam explains the word as the plural of an old Semitic term meaning messenger and reports the Qur'anic stress on the angels' complete obedience. It sets out Sunni discussions of their creation from light, their impeccability, Iblis, Harut and Marut, the questioning by Munkar and Nakir and their rank against humans, then the Imami and Isma'ili teachings on angels and the Imams.