Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #29275

Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman told us, Abu Nu’aym told us, on the authority of Abdullah bin Al-Walid, and he used to live among Banu Ajl on the authority of Bukayr. Ibn Shihab, on the authority of Sa`id Ibn Jubayr, on the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: The Jews came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and they said, O Abu al-Qasim, tell us about Thunder, what is it? He said, “An angel of the angels entrusted with the clouds, who has holes of fire with which he drives the clouds wherever God wills.” So they said, “What is it?” This is the voice that we hear that said, “Repel him with the clouds when he repel them until he goes to where he is commanded.” They said, “You are right.” So he told us about what Israel had forbidden to himself. He said, “He complained of sciatica and did not find anything suitable for him except camel meat and their milk.” For that reason he forbade it.” They said, “You have told the truth.” He said, “This is a good, authentic, and strange hadith.”