The angels boast of you

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يباهي بكم الملائكة

God said in the hadith qudsi: receive glad tidings — your Lord has opened a door of heaven and boasts of you to the angels, saying: look at My servants who have performed an obligation and are awaiting another 1 Ibn Majah 801.

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Ibn Majah relates marfu' that the Prophet ﷺ told that God said: receive glad tidings — your Lord has opened a door of heaven and boasts of you to the angels, saying: look at My servants who have performed an obligation and are awaiting another 1 Ibn Majah 801.

The meaning

In this hadith qudsi God boasts of His praying servants before the angels — the prayer reaches the highest angels as testimony for the servant 1.

Notes

From the hadith qudsi in Sunan Ibn Majah; the Jinn & Devils Browser shows it in the angels section 1.

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Muhammad· Angels in Islam (mala'ika)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Ibn Majah 801 — He boasts of you to the angels: look at My servants who have fulfilled an obligation
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Ibn Majah 801 — He boasts of you to the angels: look at My servants who have fulfilled an obligation

People and things also explored

Angels alternate among you by night and by day· Muwatta 472· Ibn Majah 801 — He boasts of you to the angels: look at My servants who have fulfilled an obligation· The angels say: My Lord, that is Your servant who intends an evil deed — You know him best· Roaming angels seek out gatherings of remembrance· Were it not for your sins the angels would visit you in your houses· Bukhari 555 — Angels take turns among you: how did you leave My servants· Bukhari 3223 — Angels take turns among you: how did you leave My servants

Sources

  1. Sunan Ibn Majah (Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi edition)
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Angels alternate among you by night and by day

God said in the hadith qudsi: angels alternate among you by night and angels by day, and they gather at the Fajr and Asr prayers; then those who spent the night among you ascend and He asks them — though He knows best — how they left My servants, and they say: we left them praying Nasai 485.