\nNarrated Masruq:\n \n\nI asked Aisha "What about His Statement:-- "Then he (Gabriel) approached And came closer, And \nwas at a distance Of but two bow-lengths Or (even) nearer?" (53.8-9) She replied, "It was Gabriel who \nused to come to the Prophet (ﷺ) in the figure of a man, but on that occasion, he came in his actual and real \nfigure and (he was so huge) that he covered the whole horizon."\n

\nNarrated Masruq:\n \n\nI asked Aisha "What about His Statement:-- "Then he (Gabriel) approached And came closer, And \nwas at a distance Of but two bow-lengths Or (even) nearer?" (53.8-9) She replied, "It was Gabriel who \nused to come to the Prophet (ﷺ) in the figure of a man, but on that occasion, he came in his actual and real \nfigure and (he was so huge) that he covered the whole horizon."\n

\nحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّاءُ بْنُ أَبِي زَائِدَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ الأَشْوَعِ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ، قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ فَأَيْنَ قَوْلُهُ ‏{‏ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّى * فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى‏}‏ قَالَتْ ذَاكَ جِبْرِيلُ كَانَ يَأْتِيهِ فِي صُورَةِ الرَّجُلِ، وَإِنَّهُ أَتَاهُ هَذِهِ الْمَرَّةَ فِي صُورَتِهِ الَّتِي هِيَ صُورَتُهُ، فَسَدَّ الأُفُقَ‏.‏