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ISMA’IL اسماىيل
The name of the angel who is said to have accompanied the angel Gabriel in his last visit to the Prophet of his death-bed. He is said to command one hundred thousand angels. (Mishkat, book xxiv. ch. x. pt. 3.)

Based on Hughes, Dictionary of Islam

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