Is the Hadith: "The Messenger (peace be upon him) asked Gabriel, 'How old are you?' Gabriel replied, 'I do not know, but age has indications.' The Prophet (peace be upon him) asked, 'And what are the indications of your age?' Gabriel said, 'A star that appears from beneath the Throne of the Most Merciful once every seventy thousand years, and I have seen it seventy-one thousand times.' The Beloved said, 'By Him in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, I was that star'" authentic?
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This narration is found in some extremist Sufi books with various rejected and denounced accounts, and we do not mention it so as not to promote it. The fact that it is absent from all books of is sufficient proof of its weakness and invalidity.
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