Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: When Allah loves a servant, He calls Gabriel (ؑ) and says: Verily, I love so and so; you should also love him, and then Gabriel (ؑ) begins to love him. Then he makes an announcement in the heaven saying: Allah loves so and so and you also love him, and then the inhabitants of the Heaven (the Angels) also begin to love him and then there is conferred honour upon him in the earth; and when Allah is angry with any servant He calls Gabriel (ؑ) and says: I am angry with such and such and you also become angry with him, and then Gabriel (ؑ) also becomes angry and then makes an announcement amongst the inhabitants of heaven: Verily Allah is angry with so-and so, so you also become angry with him, and thus they also become angry with him. Then he becomes the object of wrath on the earth also.

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Suhail with the same chain of transmitters except with this variation that in the hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Ali' bin Musayyib, there is no mention of (the word) "Anger".

Suhail bin Abi Salih, reported: We were in Arafa that there happened to pass Umar bin Abdul ' Aziz (RA) and he was the Amir of Hajj. People stood up in order to catch a glimpse of him. I said to my father: Father, I think that Allah loves Umar bin Abdul ' Aziz (RA) . He said: How is it? I said: It is because of the love in people's heart for him. Thereupon he said: By One Who created your father, I heard Abu Hurairah (RA) narrating from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) a hadith like one transmitted on the authority of Suhail.