Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam ‘ala Rasulillah Narrated Aisha (Radi-Allahu ‘anha):

Al Harith bin Hisham asked the Prophet (Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam), “How does the divine inspiration come to you?” He replied, “In all these ways:

The Angel sometimes comes to me with a voice which resembles the sound of a ringing bell, and when this state abandons me, I remember what the Angel has said – and this type of Divine Inspiration is the hardest on me; and sometimes the Angel comes to me in the shape of a man and talks to me, and I understand and remember what he says.”

Bukhari Vol. 4 : No. 438