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Regarding Killing Snakes

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Darussalam · Volume 5

40. THE BOOK OFETIQUETTE (AL-ADAB)

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الحديث: 5256 ¦ الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 364

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5256. Muḥammad bin Abī Yaḥyā said: "My father told me, that he and a friend of his went out to visit Abū Sa'eed (when he was sick). We came out of his house and met a friend of ours who wanted to enter upon him, and we went and sat in the Masjid. Then he came and told us that he had heard Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī say: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'Some snakes are jinns, so whoever sees anything in his house, let him ask it to leave, three times, then if it comes back let him kill it, for it is a devil.'" (Ḍa'if)

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5256 - حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي يَحْيَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي أَنَّهُ انْطَلَقَ هُوَ وَصَاحِبٌ لَهُ إِلَى أَبِي سَعِيدٍ يَعُودَانِهِ، فَخَرَجْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَلَقِيَنَا صَاحِبٌ لَنَا وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَأَقْبَلْنَا نَحْنُ فَجَلَسْنَا فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَجَاءَ فَأَخْبَرَنَا أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيَّ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ الْهَوَامَّ مِنَ الْجِنِّ، فَمَنْ رَأَى فِي بَيْتِهِ شَيْئًا فَلْيُحَرِّجْ عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ، فَإِنْ عَادَ فَلْيَقْتُلْهُ فَإِنَّهُ شَيْطَانٌ»

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