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(3). 3258. Ash-Sha'bī narrated that 'Alqamah said: "I said to Ibn Mas'ūd, may Allāh be pleased with him: 'Did any of you accompany the Prophet ﷺ on the Night of the Jinn?' He said: 'None of us accompanied him. One night, while he was in Makkah, we could not find him. We said: "He has been murdered [or] snatched, what has happened to him?" So we spent the worst night a people could spend until the morning' or 'it was
about dawn when we saw him coming from the direction of Ḥirā.' He said: 'They told him about what they had went through.'" "So he (ﷺ) said: 'Someone from the Jinn came to invite me, so I went to them to recite for them.' He said: "So we went and saw their tracks and the traces of their camp fire." Ash-Sha'bī said: "They asked him about their provisions – and they were Jinns of Mesopotamia – so he said: 'Every bone upon which Allāh's Name has not been mentioned, that falls into your hands, which has an abundance of meat, and every dropping or dung is fodder for your beasts.'" So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Do not perform Istinjā' with them for indeed they are provisions for your brothers among the Jinns." (Sahīh)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Ḥadīth is Hasan Ṣahīh.
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[1] Al-Ahqāf 46:24.
Commentary
This Ḥadīth tells that on the night known by the name of 'Night of the Jinn' no Companion was with the Prophet in it, He was by himself and he recited the Qur'an to the Jinns.
