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1484. Abū Sa'eed Al-Khudrī narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Indeed there are others inhabiting your homes. So yell at them three times (to leave). If you see any of them after that, then kill them." (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This is how 'Ubaidullāh bin 'Umar reported this Hadīth: from Šaifi, from Abū Sa'eed. Mālik bin Anas reported this Hadīth from Šaifi from Abū As-Sā'ib the freed slave of Hishām bin Zuhrah, from Abū Sa'eed [from the Prophet ﷺ], and there is a story along with the Hadīth.
(Another chain) similar to the
narration of Mālik.
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Commentary
The event that has been referred to in this narration is given in detail in Sahīh Muslim (See Minnah Al-Mun'am v.3. p. 479. and Sharh Muslim & An-Nawawī v.2. p. 235) The summary of this event is given hereunder. It was the occasion of the Battle of Trench. A young man who was newly married sought permission from the Prophet ﷺ and went home. There he found his wife standing at the door of the house. She told him that a snake has entered their house. He went in and killed the snake by piercing it with his lance. When he was going to throw it out of the house it slipped from the lance and dropped on the young man. He died there and then. The narration of Sahīh Muslim also hints that sometimes these snakes are Jinns.
