Jibrīl
mythological figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
جبريل · Gabriel · the Spirit · the angel · الروح · الملك
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The angel whose appearance in human form grounds the analogy for jinn form-taking.
And they only measured the jinn's assuming of forms against Jibrīl's assuming, peace be upon him, of the form of Diḥyah b.
And the manifestation of Jibrīl in the form of Diḥyah al-Kalbī is not in the sense that the essence of Jibrīl was turned into the form of Diḥyah al-Kalbī, but that that form appeared to the Messenger as a likeness conveying from Jibrīl what he revealed to him.
Either by way of representation (tamthīl), as in His saying, exalted be He, "and he took for her the form of a well-proportioned man," and as the Prophet, upon him be blessing and peace, used to see Jibrīl in the form of Diḥyah al-Kalbī (1);
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The archangel of revelation, named as the link between God and Muhammad in the isnād that the passage holds up as the original standard of elevation.
between him and God Most High stood one only, an infallible from an infallible — the lord of mankind, from Jibrīl, from God, mighty and majestic.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The archangel, adduced as one of the several referents of the word rūḥ.
and because the question about it was a question meant to confound and to entrap, since ‘spirit’ is a term shared among the human spirit, Jibrīl, another angel called by that name, a class of the angels, the Qurʼān, and ʻĪsā ibn Maryam.