What is the story of the boy and the trench?

The Shaykh : For this reason, the exegetes say regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: , that the two angels were sent down in a time when sorcery had spread among the kings, and they used sorcerers, as mentioned in the well-known story of the boy and the sorcerer in Sahih Muslim. There was a king who enslaved his people, and he felt that the sorcerer he relied upon to enslave his people had grown old and aged; so he wanted a replacement. He ordered him to choose a clever boy from the people to be his successor after him. So he chose a boy, and this boy would leave his house every morning to go to the sorcerer to learn sorcery from him. One day, his gaze fell upon a monk in a hermitage secluded from the road, so he turned toward him. The monk spoke to him, and he liked his speech and found sweetness in his heart for him. So he began to visit this monk every morning and evening. When he left his father's house in the morning, he would detour to the monk and be late arriving at his teacher, the sorcerer. The sorcerer would punish him and beat him, asking, "Why are you late?" And when he left the sorcerer to return to his father's house, he would detour to the monk and be late arriving home, so his father would beat him. Thus, he was between the two beaters. One day, he left his house as usual and was walking on the road when he saw the people and the road blocked, with people standing there. He looked and saw a snake blocking the road for the people, and no one dared to proceed. The boy raised his hands and supplicated, saying: No sooner had he finished his words than the snake withdrew. The people around him noticed and believed, for as you know, people at that time believed in such things greatly, and they began to seek blessing in him. The news of this boy spread, and a blind minister of the king heard about this blessed boy. He sent for him or came to him and said, "Cure me or heal me." The boy said to him, "Your Lord is the One who can cure you, but I will supplicate to my Lord to cure you." He supplicated for him, and Allah healed him, and he returned seeing. But this immediate healing was a lesson for the minister and a reminder of the misguidance of his king, who had enslaved him and those below him. So he began to worship Allah alone, having no partner. When he entered upon the king and the king saw him seeing, he asked him about the cause. He said, "My Lord cured me." The king knew that he had disbelieved in him, so he asked him, and he directed him to the boy. Here, the monk had hinted to the boy that he would be tested by him, and if he was asked about him, not to inform them. When the king saw the minister had disbelieved in him and believed in his Lord after returning to sight, he killed him, but only after asking him where this came from. He said, "From the boy." The king sent for the boy and interrogated him and pressed him, and he was frank with him, saying that it was Allah the Mighty and Majestic who healed him. The king knew that the boy was the cause of the minister's misguidance following him. So he ordered his killing in a very strange way: he ordered the soldiers to take him to the top of a mountain peak and throw him from the top of the mountain to the bottom so that he would die a terrible death. They ascended, and when they were about to throw him, he said, "O Allah, suffice me against them however You will." The mountain shook from beneath them, and they all fell dead, while he walked as if he were walking on a plain until he reached the king. The king was astonished and said to him, "My Lord sufficed me against their evil." So he ordered soldiers to put him in a small boat and take him to the middle of the sea, then throw him into the sea. They took him, and when they were about to throw him, he said, "O Allah, suffice me against them however You will." The boat or small vessel shook, and they all fell into the sea, and he returned walking to the king. The king was greatly perplexed and knew that he had no way to kill him. The boy was frank with him and said to him, "You will not be able to reach me to kill me unless you do what I command you to do." The boy was now speaking from above, exalting himself over the king. "Unless you do what I command you to do." He said to him, "What?" He said, "Gather the people for a great day, and place me on a wooden platform, then take an arrow from my quiver, stand far away from me, and shoot me with it, saying: 'In the name of Allah, the Lord of the boy.' If you do that, you will kill me; otherwise, you have no way to me." The king announced this, and the community gathered in a very large square. They placed the boy on the wooden platform, and the king stood before him, drew an arrow from his quiver, then stood far away from him and shot him with the arrow, saying, "In the name of Allah, the Lord of the boy." It hit him in the chest, so he placed his hands like this and died. But when the people heard the king say, "In the name of Allah, the Lord of the boy," they disbelieved in him and believed in the Lord, Glorified and Exalted is He. Here, the king realized the boy's trickery against him, and that by sacrificing himself, he had saved his people from believing in him to believing in his Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He. Here, the story of the trench remained. The trench was dug and the fire was lit, and it was the turn of a woman carrying her infant. When she was stopped beside the fire, her nature as a mother weakened, and the boy said to her, "Be patient, O my mother." So she threw herself in. Here came the saying of Allah the Exalted: The point in the story of Harut and Marut is that the kings at that time relied on sorcerers, and our Lord, the Mighty and Majestic, sent down the two angels to make the knowledge of sorcery a common knowledge known by the entire people, so that they would know that these sorcerers do not bring anything beyond the capacity of humans, but rather they are specialized in knowledge unlike the rest of humans. When they learned through the teaching of the angels or the two angels the way of sorcery, they no longer fell for the sorcery of the sorcerers, and they were saved from their trickery and misguidance. This is sorcery in most cases, meaning it is about imagination; but if a human devil cooperates with a jinn devil, its effect is stronger and its harm greater. Yes.