وَعَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ
قَالَ: كَانَ رَجُلٌ يَقْرَأُ سُورَةَ الْكَهْفِ وَإِلَى جَانِبِهِ حِصَانٌ مَرْبُوطٌ بِشَطَنَيْنِ فَتَغَشَّتْهُ سَحَابَةٌ فَجَعَلَتْ تَدْنُو وَتَدْنُو وَجَعَلَ فَرَسُهُ يَنْفِرُ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ: «تِلْكَ السكينَة تنزلت بِالْقُرْآنِ»
When a man was reciting sura al-Kahf (Qur’an,18) with a horse tied with two ropes at his side a cloud overshadowed him, and as it began to come nearer and nearer his horse began to take fright. He went and mentioned that to the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) in the morning and he said, “That was the Shechina* which came down by reason of the Qur’an.” *The word in Arabic is as-sakina which may be translated calmness; but here it has the article which indicates something more precise.
It may therefore here refer to the Jewish idea of the Shechina which indicates a divine visitation, (Bukhari and Muslim.)