Your guardian-Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days and is firmly established on the throne (of authority): 7: 54

Footnote # 1031 by Abdullah Yusuf Ali to the above verse:
A sublime verse, comparable to the Throne Verse 2: 255. As for the Creation in six Days; in verse 22: 47, we are told that a Day in the sight of Allah is like a thousand years of our reckoning, and in verse 70: 4, the comparison is with 50,000 of our years. In the history of our material earth, we may reckon six great epochs of evolution."

Note: The Arabic phrase "sittah ayyam" is translated by 
M. Asad as "six aeons" and by Malik as "six time periods".

It is Allah Who has created the heavens and the earth and all between them in six Days and is firmly established on the Throne (of authority):  32: 4

Verily your Lord is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days and is firmly established on the Throne (of authority) regulating and governing all things.  10: 3

He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days and His Throne was over the Waters that He might try you which of you is best in conduct.  11:7

We created the heavens and the earth and all between them in Six Days nor did any sense of weariness touch Us.  50: 38

He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six Days and is moreover firmly established on the Throne (of authority).  57: 4

In Sahih Muslim Book No. 38, "Giving Description Of The Day Of Judgement, Paradise And Hell (Kitab Sifat Al-Qiyama Wa'L Janna Wa'N-Nar)", 
Hadith Number 6707 records: 

Narrated by Abu Hurayrah:

Allah's Messenger took hold of my hands and said: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created the clay on Saturday and He created the mountains on Sunday and He created the trees on Monday and He created the things entailing labour on Tuesday and created light on Wednesday and He caused the animals to spread on Thursday and created Adam (peace be upon him) after Asr on Friday; the last creation at the last hour of the hours of Friday, i.e. between afternoon and night.

This Hadeeth speaks of only the Creation of this Earth and Adam.
There is NO mention of the Creation of the Universe and/or of the Heavens.
Adam and Bibi Hawa (peace be upon them), were created in the Heaven.

Anyone who yet tries to defend the Narrator Abu Hurayrah and/or the compiler Imam Muslim, concerning the AUTHENTICITY of the above quoted narration, has to admit that the Prophet had the ADDITIONAL - SPECIFIC - PRECISE knowledge/information than what has been Revealed to us by Allah (SWT)...

A refusal to REJECT this "Sahih Hadith by Imam Muslim", after reading the above, is in effect the REJECTION of the Glorious Qur'an... 

Hence, any one who claims that there is not a SINGLE "Sahih Hadeeth" that can be REJECTED as FALSE, has to watch out that such blind loyalty and outcry does not make him/her a "MUNKAR-E-QUR'AN"!

I undertake to REVISE this article and the notes, IF I do receive valid 
explanations or the verses from the Qur'an that can justify the above TEXT.

REFUTATION OF THE MISLEADING ARGUMENTS OFTEN PRESENTED BY THE ENEMIES OF ISLAM CONCERNING 
THE CREATION IN "EIGHT DAYS"

Below are the translated text of verses 41: 9 to 12 done by M. Asad and his scholarly commentaries. Also, are TWO separate scholarly explanations that prove that the Creation of the universe happened in "SIX AEONS (DAYS)"

THE TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES OF THE FOUR VERSES:

41: 9 Say: "Would you indeed deny Him who has created the earth in two aeons?7 And do you claim that there is any power that could rival Him,8 the Sustainer of all the worlds?"
7 For the above rendering of the term yawm (lit., "day") as "aeon", see last third of note [43] on 7:54. As in so many verses of the Qur'an which relates to cosmic events, the repeated mention of the "six aeons" during which the universe was created - "two" of which, according to the above verse, were taken by the evolution of the inorganic universe, including the earth - has a purely allegorical import: in this case, I believe, an indication that the universe did not exist "eternally" but had a definite beginning in time, and that it required a definite time-lapse to evolve to its present condition. 
The last third of note [43] on 7:54 reads: The word yawm, commonly translated as "day" - but rendered above as "aeon" - is used in Arabic to denote any period, whether extremely long ("aeon") or extremely short ("moment"): 
8 Lit., "do you give Him compeers (andad)?"

41: 10 For He [it is who, after creating the earth,] placed firm mountains on it [towering] above its surface, and bestowed [so many] blessings on it, and equitably apportioned9 its means of subsistence to all who would seek it: [an all this He created] in four aeons.10
9 I.e., in accordance with divine justice, and not with human concepts of "equity" or "need".
10 Almost all the classical commentators agree in that these "four aeons" include the "two" mentioned in the preceding verse: hence my interpolation of the words "and all this He created". Together with the "two aeons" of  verse 12, the entire allegorical number comes to six.

41: 11 And11 He [it is who] applied His design to the skies, which were yet but smoke;12 and He [it is who] said to them and to the earth, "come [into being], both of you, willingly or unwillingly!" - to which both responded, "we do come in obedience."
11 Whenever particle thumma is used, as in above instance, to link parallel statements - statements not necessarily indicating a sequence in time - it has the function of a simple conjunction, and may be rendered as "and".
12 I.e.,a gas - evidently hydrogen gas, which physicists regard as the primal element from which all material particles of the universe have evolved and still evolve. For meaning of the term same ("sky" or "skies" or "heaven") in its cosmic connotation, see note [20] on 2: 29.
Note [20] on 2:29 reads: ... As regards the "seven heavens" it is to be borne in mind that in Arabic usage - and apparently in other Semitic languages as well - the number "seven" is often synonymous with "several" (see Lisan al-'Arab)...

41: 12 And He [it is who] decreed that they become seven heavens14 in two aeons, and imparted unto each heaven its function. And We adorned the skies nearest to the earth with lights, and made them secure:such is the ordaining of the Almighty, the All-knowing.
14 I.e., a multiplicity of cosmic systems (cf. note [20] on 2: 29).
 

a.  Verse 41:9         Allah created the Earth  in ................  ....    ....   ....  2 aeons

b.  Verse 41:10       Allah placed Mountains, bestowed blessings in ...  4 aeons

c.  Verses 41:11/12 Allah applied His design to the Skies, decreed the seven heavens, adorned the skies (heavens) and made them secure in ...  ...  2 aeons 

    2 + 4 + 2 = EIGHT Aeons or "EIGHT DAYS".

TRUE EXPLANATION NUMBER ONE, AS GIVEN BY M. ASAD:

In his above quoted commentaries translator M. Asad has reasoned, after giving explanations, that within the FOUR AEONS of Verse 41: 10 are included the TWO AEONS of Verse 41: 9. I reproduce below the text from his commentary number 10: Almost all the classical commentators agree in that these "four aeons" include the "two" mentioned in the preceding verse.

THE ALTERNATE TRUE EXPLANATION NUMBER TWO: 

This explanation, as understood by me and presented below, has its reasonings based upon the Verse 21:30 of the Qur'an, as such is much more convincing. 

VERSE 21: 30:

ARE, THEN, they who are bent on denying the truth not aware that the heavens and the earth were [once] one single entity, which We then parted asunder? and [that] We made out of water every living thing? Will they not, then being to believe? 

Allah knows the best...

May Allah Guide the Ummah to HIS DEEN
based upon HIS REVEALED WORDS. Ameen 

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