Hadith 5

(The book) ‘Sharah Al-Nahj’ by Al-Kaydari, ‘It has been reported in the report that when Allah‑azwj the Exalted Created the sky and the earth, Created a green substance, then He-azwj Dissolved it, so it became restless water. Then He-azwj Extracted vapour from it like the smoke. He-azwj Created the sky from it, just as He-azwj has said: ‘Then He Directed Himself to the sky and it was a smoke, [41: 11]. Then He-azwj Split the sky and Made it (into) seven. Then He-azwj Made foam from that. He-azwj Made the land of Makkah from it, then Extended the earth, all of it from beneath the Kabah, and due to that Makkah is named as ‘The mother town’, because it is the origin of entirety of the earth (lands). Then He-azwj Divided earth into seven earths, and Made between every sky and a sky, a travel distance of five hundred years, and like that between every earth and an earth, and like that between this sky and this earth. Then He-azwj Sent an Angel from beneath the Throne until He-azwj Transferred the earth upon his shoulder and his neck and extended the two hands. One of these reached to the east and the other to the west. Then He-azwj Sent, for the settling of the feet of that Angel, a cow from the Paradise having forty thousand horns for it and forty thousand legs and hands, and He-azwj Sent a ruby from lofty Al-Firdows until it was place in between the hump of that cow and its ears. So the feet of the Angel settled upon the humps and the ruby. And the horns of that cow are raised from the outskirts of the earth to beneath the Throne, and the nostrils of its nose are parallel with the earth. When the cow breathes, the ocean extends, and when it withholds its breath, the ocean pulls back from that. Then He-azwj Created a rock for Settling the legs of that cow, and it is which Allah-azwj Told Luqman-as about in His-azwj Words: happens to be inside a rock, [31: 16]. So He-azwj Increases the measurement of the capacity of that rock by seven times upon the measurement of the seven skies and seven earths. Then He-azwj Created a whale, and it is which Allah-azwj Swore by. He-azwj Said: ‘Noon and the Pen, [68: 1], and the Noon is the whale. And the Exalted Commanded with placing the rock upon the back of that whale, and Made that whale to be in the water, and Withheld the water upon the wind, and Allah-azwj Preserves the wind by His-azwj Power’’. [6] (P. s. – This is not a Hadeeth)