أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ ، حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ الْقُرَشِيُّ ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيِّ ، قَالَ : قُلْتُ : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، كَيْفَ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّكَ نَبِيٌّ حَتَّى اسْتَيْقَنْتَ؟، فَقَالَ : " يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ،أَتَانِي مَلَكَانِ وَأَنَا بِبَعْضِ بَطْحَاءِ مَكَّةَ فَوَقَعَ أَحَدُهُمَا عَلَي الْأَرْضِ، وَكَانَ الْآخَرُ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ، فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ : أَهُوَ هُوَ؟، قَالَ : نَعَمْ، قَالَ : فَزِنْهُ بِرَجُلٍ، فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِ فَوَزَنْتُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : فَزِنْهُ بِعَشَرَةٍ، فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : زِنْهُ بِمِئَةٍ، فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ، ثُمَّ قَالَ : زِنْهُ بِأَلْفٍ، فَوُزِنْتُ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحْتُهُمْ كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ يَنْتَثِرُونَ عَلَيَّ مِنْ خِفَّةِ الْمِيزَانِ، قَالَ : فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ : لَوْ وَزَنْتَهُ بِأُمَّتِهِ لَرَجَحَهَا "

Abdullah bin Imran told us, Abu Dawud told us, Jafar bin Othman Al-Qurashi told us, on the authority of Othman bin Urwa bin Al-Zubayr, On the authority of his father, on the authority of Abu Dhar al-Ghifari, he said: I said: O Messenger of God, how did you know that you were a prophet until you were certain? He said: O Abu Dharr, he came to me. Two angels and I were in Batha in Mecca, and one of them fell to the ground, and the other was between heaven and earth, and one of them said to his companion: Is it? He? He said: Yes. He said: He weighed him against a man, so I weighed him against him and I outweighed him. Then he said: Weighed him against ten, so I weighed against them and I outweighed them, then He said: Weigh it by a hundred, so I weighed it with them and I outweighed them, then he said: Weigh it with a thousand, so I weighed it with them and I outweighed them as if I were looking at them. They criticize me for the lightness of the scale. He said: Then one of them said to his companion: If you had weighed it against his female slave, he would have outweighed it.