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“'What prevents you (Gabriel) from visiting us more often than you do?' Whereupon the verse was revealed: 'We do not descend except at the command of your Lord. To Him belong all that is before us and all that is behind us, and all that lies between......'"

19:64 Koran

Bukhari with a chain up to ibn Abbas who related that the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, said to Gabriel this.