7. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Mutawakkil رضي الله عنه said: Muhammad ibn Abu `Abd Allah al-Kufi said, on the authority of Musa ibn `Imran al-Nakah`I, on the authority of his paternal uncle alHusayn ibn Yazid, on the authority of Isma`il ibn Muslim that Abu Rahman ibn Abu Dharr, on the authority of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may the mercy of Allah be upon him) that I was holding the hand of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and we were both walking. We were looking at the sun and until it set, So I asked, “O Messenger of Allah! Where does it set?” [(Editor’s footnote: This traditionis strange (gharib). As they do not agree with scientific fact, the words that follow cannot be attributed to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم] He صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم replied, The sun sets in the sky then it rises from the sky to another sky, until it rises to the seventh highest sky, which is below the Empyrean. Then, the sun prostrates, and the angels which are entrusted with it prostrate themselves along with it. At this point, the sun says: “O my Lord! Do you command me to rise from the West or from my place of rising (the East)?” According to the Word of the Exalted: Abd the sun runs onto a term appointed for it; that is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing. What He means is that He, the Mighty Lord, knows the Realm He has created. He said: Then Jibra`il comes to the sun with a dress which glows with the Light of the Empyrean and fixes the times of day, making them lengthy during the summer, short during the winter, and intermediate length during the call and spring. He said: Thus, the sun wears that dress like anyone of you wear your dress, then it brightens up with it the horizon of the heaven until it rises from the place of rising. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: It is as if I am looking at it, and it is confined for three nights, then it dresses with the glow, and is commanded to rise from the West. That is the Word of the Mighty and High: When the sun is covered, and when the starts darken. The moon is similar in its place of rising, and its trajectory in the horizon of heaven. Its setting is it is rising to the seventh heaven. It prostrates below the Empyrean then Jibra’il comes to it with a dress of light from the Throne. According to the Word of the Mighty and High He made the sun a shinng brightness and the moon a light. Abu Dharr رضي الله عنه says: “I then withdrew with the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and we prayed the Maghrib prayers.