Narrated Al-Abbas ibn Abdul Muttalib: I was sitting in al-Batha with a company among whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sitting, when a cloud passed above them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked at it and said: What do you call this? They said: Sahab. He said: And muzn? They said: And muzn. He said: And anan? They said: And anan. Abu Dawud said: I am not quite confident about the word anan. He asked: Do you know the distance between Heaven and Earth? They replied: We do not know. He then said: The distance between them is seventy-one, seventy-two, or seventy-three years. The heaven which is above it is at a similar distance (going on till he counted seven heavens). Above the seventh heaven there is a sea, the distance between whose surface and bottom is like that between one heaven and the next. Above that there are eight mountain goats the distance between whose hoofs and haunches is like the distance between one heaven and the next. Then Allah, the Blessed and the Exalted, is above that.
Hadith Referenceسنن ابي داود / كتاب السنة / 4723
Hadith Gradingالألبانی:ضعيف | زبیر علی زئی:ضعيف, إسناده ضعيف, ترمذي (3320) ابن ماجه (193), سماك بن حرب اختلط كما تقدم بالإشارة (2238) ولا نعرف تحديثه به قبل اختلاطه و عبد اللّٰه بن عميرة لا يعرف له سماع من الأحنف كما قال البخاري رحمه اﷲ (التاريخ الكبير 159/5), انوار الصحيفه، صفحه نمبر 165
Hadith Takhrij« سنن الترمذی/تفسیر الحاقة 67 (3320)، سنن ابن ماجہ/المقدمة 13 (193)، (تحفة الأشراف: 5124)، وقد أخرجہ: مسند احمد (1/206، 207) (ضعیف) » ( اس کے راوی عبداللہ بن عمیرہ لین الحدیث ہیں)
´Al-Ahnaf bin Wais narrated :` from Al-Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib who claimed that he was sitting in Al-Batha with a group, and the Messenger of Allah was sitting amongst them, when a cloud passed over them. They looked at it, and the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Di you know what its name it?’ They said: ‘Yes. This is As-Sahab (cloud).’ The Messenger of Allah saidl: ‘Al-Muzn (rain cloud)?’ They said: ‘Yes. This is As-Sahab (cloud).’ Then the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Do you know how much distance there is between the heavens and the earth?’ They said: ‘No, by Allah we do not know.’ He said: ‘The distance between every two of them is either seventy-one, or two, or three, years, and the heaven that is above that one is like that.’ Until he enumerated Seven heavens like that. Then he said: ‘Above the seventh heaven is a sea, Between its highest part and its lowest is just as there is between one heaven to another heaven. Then above their backs is the Throne. Between its lowest and highest parts is the same as what is between one heaven to another heaven, and Allah is above that.’”
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation: 1: These three names are different names for clouds, which have been designated for various types of clouds.
2: That is, if this hadith had been narrated during the Hajj season and the Jahmiyyah had come to know of it, they would not have raised unnecessary objections.
Note: (In the chain of narration, Abdullah bin Umairah is a narrator who is lenient in hadith.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3320