8. Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-`Attar (RA) said: My father said: al-Husayn ibn alHasan ibn Aban related to us, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Auramah, o the authority of Ziyad ibn al-Qandi, on the authority of Durust, on the authority of a man that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) said
“Verily, Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, has created an angel who is so huge that it would take a fluttering bird five hundred years to fly from its earlobe to its neck.”