بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والصلاة والسلام على خاتم النبيين
The reality of the descent of Angels upon pious Believers in this world, including the Angel Gabriel, is proven from an episode in the life of the great Imam and Reformer, Ahmad bin Hanbal رحمة الله عليه as related by al-Qadi Iyad bin Musa:
وَحُكِيَ عَنْ أحْمَدَ بن حَنْبَلٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ يَوْمًا مَعَ جَمَاعَةٍ تَجَرَّدُوا وَدَخَلُوا المَاءَ فاسْتَعْمَلْتُ الْحَدِيثَ من كَانَ يُؤْمِنُ بِالله وَاليَوْمِ الآخِرِ فَلَا يَدْخُلُ الْحَمَّامَ إلَّا بِمِئْزَرٍ وَلَمْ أتَجَرَّدْ فَرَأْيتُ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ قَائِلًا لي يَا أَحْمَدُ أبْشرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّه قَدْ غَفَرَ لَكَ باسْتِعْمالِكَ السُّنَّةَ وَجَعَلكَ إمامًا يُقْتَدَى بِكَ، قُلْتُ من أنْتَ قَالَ جِبْرِيلُ
Ahmad bin Hanbal said: One day I was in the public baths, and there was a group of people who entered the water without any clothes. I kept in mind the Hadith ‘He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not enter the public bath without a waist-wrapper’. So I did not remove my clothes. That night I saw someone saying to me ‘O Ahmad! Receive good news that Allah has forgiven you on account of your following the Sunnah, and made you an Imam who shall be followed’. I said, ‘who are you?’ he said, ‘Gabriel’. (al-Shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa; p.488):
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