narrated to me, from his Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Jannan al-Farisi, from Muhammad ibn Jundub, the Orphan of the Religion of Allah (peace be upon him), from the Lord Abu Shu'ayb (peace be upon him), that he said:
"To Allah, Blessed and Exalted, belong wandering angels who seek out the Circles of Remembrance (Majalis al-Dhikr). When they come upon a gathering in which there is a people proclaiming the Oneness (Tawhid) of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, glorifying Him and negating from Him all [human] descriptions and attributes, they signal one another with their wings toward the heavens. Every angel [then] seeks forgiveness from Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, and supplicates for the believers in that gathering—that Allah may deliver them from the [material] world into the Light of Paradise. Indeed, Allah the Exalted answers the supplication of the angels regarding the believers."
[104] Abu al-Qasim 'Ali ibn 'Isa (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated to me, saying: Abu al-Fath Hassan ibn 'Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Sahlan al-Baghdadi narrated to me, saying: Ahmad ibn Idris narrated to me—reaching by chain of




