500. My father – rahimahullāh – narrated to me (and said): Mu’ādh bin Mu’ādh narrated to us (and said): Hammād bin Salamah narrated to us (and said): Thābit al Bunānī narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik (radiAllāhu ‘anhu) from the Prophet (sallAllāhu alayhi wa sallam) regarding His – ‘azza wa jalla – words:
﴾So when his Lord appeared to the mountain He made it collapse to dust.﴿ [Al A’rāf: 143]
He said: He ﷺ said: “Like this (i.e. he ﷺ exposed the tip of the little finger).”
My father said: Mu’ādh showed us how (with his little finger), so Humayd al Tāwil said to him: “Why are you doing that, O Abū Muhammad?”
He said: So he struck his chest with a hard strike and said: “Who are you O Humayd and what are you O Humayd? Anas ibn Mālik narrated it to me from the Prophet ﷺ and you are saying: ‘Why are you doing that?’”
My father narrated to me and said: Someone who heard Mu’ādh narrated to me that he said: “I wish that he would be imprisoned for two months.” I.e. Humayd.
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501. Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr Al-Muqaddamī narrated to me (and said): Hudaym narrated to us (and said): Muhammad ibn Sawā narrated to us, from Sa’īd, from Qatādah, from Anas, from the Prophet ﷺ (regarding His – the Exalted – Words):
﴾So when his Lord appeared to the mountain He made it collapse to dust.﴿ [Al A’rāf 7:143]
He ﷺ said: “Like this (and he showed it with the tip of the little finger).”
The Sunnah by Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal