The Two Angels and what they Record — Hadith 6

6. Al-Naḍr ibn Suwayd narrated from ʿĀṣim ibn Ḥamīd, from Abū Baṣīr, from Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) who said regarding the verse in which Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, says: As the two receivers receive, [one] sitting to the right and [the other] to the left (Q50: 17), “They are the two angels [who record the deeds]. ” [Then the narrator said, ] “And I asked him about the verse wherein Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, says: Here is what is ready with me [of the record] (Q50: 23), so he said, ‘It is the angel who preserves [and records] his deeds for him. ’ And I asked him about the verse wherein Allah, to Whom belong might and majesty, says: His [evil] companion will say, ‘Our Lord, I did not make him transgress…’ (Q50: 27), and he said, ‘He (the evil companion) is Satan. ’”