Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36897 — Reports on what is prepared

It is narrated from a man of Banu Tamim that he said: We were with Abu al-Awwam. He recited this verse: "Over it are nineteen" [Al-Muddaththir: 30], and said: "What do you people say? Are there nineteen thousand angels, or only nineteen?" The narrator said: I said: "Nineteen." He asked: "How do you know?" I said: "Because Allah says: 'And We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disbelieved' [Al-Muddaththir: 31]." He said: "You have spoken correctly. In the hand of each angel is a hammer of iron with two prongs. He strikes one blow with it, and seventy thousand angels fall from it. Between the two shoulders of each angel is a distance of such and such."