It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) concerning the saying of Allah Almighty "When the sky is split open, and listens to its Lord and is obliged to do so" [Surah al-Inshiqaq: 1-2] , that he said: "Adhinat" means that it heard (the command of its Lord) and obeyed; and "And when the earth is stretched out" [Surah al-Inshiqaq: 3] means the Day of Resurrection (when the earth will be spread out); and concerning "and casts out what is within it and becomes empty" [Surah al-Inshiqaq: 4] he said: (That is, the earth) will bring out all the dead that are within it. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said that the House of Allah (the Ka'bah) existed two thousand years before the creation of the earth; and concerning "And when the earth is stretched out" [Surah al-Inshiqaq: 3] he said that the earth was spread out and extended from beneath it (the House of Allah). This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.