Talha b. ‘Ubaidallah b. Kariz reported God’s messenger as saying,“On no day is the devil seen more insignificant, more violently repelled, more ignominious, or more angry than on the day of ‘Arafa, that being due to no other reason than the mercy he sees being sent down and God’s forgiveness of great sins, except for what was seen on the day of Badr.”He was asked what was seen on the day of Badr and replied,(This is a translation of the text in the Damascus edition. Mirqat, 3, 219 omits ‘He was:asked ... replied’. Muwatta’, Hajj, 245 has, ‘Except for what he saw on the day of Badr.’ God’s messenger was asked what he saw on the day of Badr and replied ...)“He saw Gabriel keeping the angels in battle-order.”Malik transmitted it in mursal form, and it occurs in Sharh as-sunna with the wording of al-Masabih.