And peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.

The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) transmitted in the context of the hadiths in the chapter on the virtue of the greeting and the command to spread it: "Narrated by Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said:

When He created him, He said (to him), "Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen what they will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring." Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).' They replied, 'AsSalamu-'Alaika wa Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on you) So they increased 'Wa Rahmatullah'

لما خلق الله آدم صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: اذهب فسلم على أولئك نفر من الملائكة جلوس فاستمع ما يحيونك فإنها تحيتك وتحية ذريتك، فقال: السلام عليكم، فقالوا: السلام عليك ورحمة الله فزادوه ورحمة الله

Sahih al-Bukhari 6227

Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim. Narrated by al-Bara' ibn 'Azib (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded us with seven things: visiting the sick, following funeral processions, saying 'may Allah heal you' to the sneezer, helping the weak, assisting the oppressed, spreading the greeting, and fulfilling the oath. Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim. This is the wording of one of the narrations in al-Bukhari."

The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
The author al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) mentioned in *Riyad al-Salihin*, in the chapter on the virtue of the greeting and spreading it, the hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: So Adam went to them in obedience to the command of Allah In this is evidence for several benefits. First: that this human creation was from non-existence and that it was not a thing mentioned before, as Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said: So this humanity was not a thing mentioned before, so Allah created it and brought it into existence for a great wisdom. Therefore, when He said to the angels, Glory be to Allah, when He informed them that He would make a successor on earth: Allah created this humanity and made from them the prophets and messengers, the truthful ones, the martyrs, and the righteous. Also among the benefits of this hadith: that the angels are bodies and not spirits without bodies, because they are sitting, and one who is sitting means he is a body, and so it is with the angels (peace be upon them); they are bodies. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) saw Jibril in the form in which he was created, having six hundred wings that filled the horizon. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said: So the angels are bodies, but Allah, Mighty and Majestic, veiled them from us and made them a hidden realm, just as the jinn are bodies, but Allah the Exalted veiled them from us and made them a hidden realm. The angels may appear in the form of a human, as Jibril came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) once in the form of Dhu al-Kalbi and once in the form of a strange man, with no trace of travel on him, whom the Companions did not know, wearing white clothes and having black hair. He sat with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and asked him about Islam, faith, excellence in worship, the Hour, and its signs. And among the benefits of this hadith: that the Sunnah in the greeting is to say "Peace be upon you" if they are a group, and if it is one person, say "Peace be upon you," because the singular is addressed with the singular address, and the group with the group address. And among the benefits also: that the greeting was received from the angels by the command of Allah, where Allah the Exalted said: But in their saying "Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah" in the response, there is a point of discussion, which is that the known in the response is to precede the news, so it is said: "Upon you be peace." But it is said: either they know this as the initial greeting, or the Shari'ah came with the opposite, i.e., by preceding the news. And among its benefits: that the best in responding to the greeting is for a person to add "and the mercy of Allah," because the angels added it. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said: So begin with the best, or return it if you do not return the best. As for the hadith of al-Bara' ibn 'Azib, the discussion of it will come, if Allah wills, in the upcoming lessons.