Hadith.1522 - Ali ibn Ri'ab reported from Abu Basir, who said:
I asked Abu Ja'far
عليه السلام about the four winds—the North wind (Shamal), the South wind (Janub), the East wind (Saba), and the West wind (Dabur). I told him, "The people say that the North wind is from Paradise and the South wind is from Hell."
Imam
عليه السلام said: "Indeed, Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, has armies from among the winds with which He punishes those who disobey Him. Each wind has an angel in charge who is obeyed.
When Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, wishes to punish a people with a particular type of wind, He reveals to the angel in charge of that wind that He intends to use it as a punishment. The angel commands it, and it rages as an enraged lion would. Each wind has a name.
Do you not hear the words of Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic:
'Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous calamity' (Quran
54:19) and His words,
'the barren wind' (Quran
51:41), and 'a whirlwind containing fire, which burned it' (Quran
2:266)?
And what Allah
سبحانه وتعالى mentioned in the Book about the winds by which He punishes those who disobey Him.
Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, also has winds of mercy—pollinating winds, winds that stir the clouds and drive them, winds that hold the clouds between the sky and the earth, winds that squeeze the clouds and make them rain by Allah’s
سبحانه وتعالى permission, and winds that disperse the clouds.
These are among the winds that Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, has mentioned in the Book. As for the four winds, they are the names of angels—North (Shamal), South (Janub), East (Saba), and West (Dabur). Each of these winds has an angel in charge of it.
When Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, Blessed and Exalted, wants to send a north wind, He commands the angel named Shamal, who descends upon the Sacred House (Kaaba), stands by the Yemeni Corner, and strikes with his wings, causing the north wind to scatter wherever Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, wills, over land and sea.
Similarly, when Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, Blessed and Exalted, wishes to send the east wind, He commands the angel named Saba, who descends upon the Sacred House, stands by the Yemeni Corner, and strikes with his wings, causing the east wind to scatter wherever Allah
سبحانه وتعالى wills over land and sea.
When Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, Blessed and Exalted, desires to send the south wind, He commands the angel named Janub, who descends upon the Sacred House, stands by the Yemeni Corner, and strikes with his wings, causing the south wind to scatter wherever Allah
سبحانه وتعالى wills.
When Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Mighty and Majestic, intends to send the west wind, He commands the angel named Dabur, who descends upon the Sacred House, stands by the Yemeni Corner, and strikes with his wings, causing the west wind to scatter wherever Allah
سبحانه وتعالى wills over land and sea."
