Mishkat al-Masabih — Hadith #49297

On the authority of Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, that Usayd ibn Hudayr said: While he was reciting Surat al-Baqarah during the night, and his horse was tied to him, The mare galloped, then remained silent, and he recited. Then the mare galloped, then remained silent. The mare galloped, then remained silent. Then he recited, and the mare galloped, so he departed. His son Yahya was close to her, so he feared that afflicted him, but when he delayed it, he raised his head to the sky, and behold, something like a canopy in which were things like lamps. When morning came, he spoke to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. He said: “Read, O Ibn Hudair. Read, O Ibn Hudair.” He said, “I feared, O Messenger of God, that she would have intercourse with Yahya while he was close to her.” So I raised my head and turned to him and raised my head to the sky, and behold, there was something like a canopy, in which were things like lamps, so they went out so that I would not see them. He said: “Do you know what that is?” He said, No. He said: “Those angels came close to your voice, and if you had recited, people would have looked at them, not hidden from them.” agreed. The wording according to Al-Bukhari and in Muslim is: “I ascended in the air” instead of: “I came out in the first person.”