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18. 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd narrated that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said:
“Do not perform Istinjā' with dung nor with bones. For indeed it is provisions for your brothers among the Jinn.” (Sahīh)
There are narrations on this topic from Abū Hurairah, Salmān, Jābir, and Ibn 'Umar.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth has been reported by Ismā'il bin Ibrāhīm and others, from Dawūd bin Abī Hind, from Ash-Sha'bī, from Alqamah, from 'Abdullāh: “That he (i.e., 'Abdullāh) was with the Prophet ﷺ on the night of the Jinn” And the Hadīth is lengthy. Ash-Sha'bī said: “Indeed Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said: 'Do not perform Istinjā' with dung, nor with bones. For it is provision for your brothers among the Jinn.'”
It is as if the narration of Ismā'il is more correct than the narration of Ḥafṣ bin Ghiyāth.
The people of knowledge act according to this Hadīth.
And there are narrations on this topic from Jābir, and Ibn 'Umar, [may Allāh be pleased with them both.]
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Commentary
It looks as if the bones are made full of flesh for the Jinns; whether the Name of Allāh ﷻ has been mentioned on them or not [Sahīh Muslim: 450; as is known from the narration of Tirmidhi chapter: Al-Tafsīr, Hadīth: 3258]. The dung and dropping of animals etc. are food of the rides of Jinns as quoted in the aforementioned narration of Muslim; this also proves that anything that is food of an animal is not allowed to be used for the cleansing of private parts.
