Al-Khiṣāl

11-1 My father, may God be pleased with him, narrated to us, he said: Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAṭṭār narrated to us; from Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. ʿImrān al-Ashʿarī; from ʿAlī b. Muḥammad; from an unnamed man; from Sulaymān b. Ziyād al-Minqarī; from ʿAmr b. Shimr; from Ismāʿīl al-Suddī; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sābiṭ al-Qurashī; from Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, who said regarding God's saying in his book, concerning the story of Joseph (ʿas), "I saw eleven planets, and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrating themselves before me." Jābir gave the names of the stars as follows, "They are al-Ṭāriq, Jarbān, al-Dhayyāl, Dhū al-Kanafān, Dhū al-Qarʿ, Qābis, Waththāb, ʿAmūdān, Faylaq, Muṣbiḥ, al-Ḍarūḥ, al-Ḍiyāʾ, and al-Nūr, the latter two being the sun and the moon. All of these stars surround the sky."