(Sometimes it comes to me like the ringing of a bell, and this is the hardest on me, then it leaves me and I have understood it, and sometimes an angel comes in the form of a man, and I understand what he says). It was recorded by al-Bukhārī under numbers (2, 3215), Mālik in "al-Muwaṭṭaʾ" (1/206-207), al-Tirmidhī (9/252-253) - who said: "A ḥadīth ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ" -, al-Nasāʾī (1/147-148), Ibn Ḥibbān in "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1/123-124/38), al-Bayhaqī in "al-Sunan" (7/152-153), al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (13/321-322/3737), Aḥmad (6/158, 163, 256-257), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (3/293-294/3343 and 3344), all of them through various chains from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah from his father from ʿĀʾishah: that al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām asked the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): How does the revelation come to you? He said: ... and he mentioned it. Al-Baghawī said: "This ḥadīth is agreed upon for its authenticity." I said: And al-Ṭabarānī added in another narration of his two narrations - after his saying at its end -: "He speaks to me with words, and it is easier for me"; so this addition: "and it is easier for me" in its chain with him: ʿĀṣim ibn Hilāl, and he - as al-Ḥāfiẓ said -: "has some weakness." But it was mentioned in "Fatḥ al-Bārī" (1/20) that this addition is with Abū ʿAwānah; however, I did not see the ḥadīth in the first part of "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū ʿAwānah", so I do not know if it is with him through the route of this ʿĀṣim, or through someone else?!