Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 5937
Arabic hadith text
وَعَنْ مَعْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبِي قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ مَسْرُوقًا: مَنْ آذَنَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِالْجِنِّ لَيْلَةَ اسْتَمَعُوا الْقُرْآنَ؟ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُوكَ يَعْنِي عَبْدَ اللَّهِ ابْن مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: آذَنَتْ بِهِمْ شَجَرَةٌ. مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيْهِ
Translation
Ma‘n ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman reported: I heard my father say, ‘I asked Masruq, “Who informed the Prophet ﷺ about the jinn on the night they listened to the Qur’an?”’ He said, ‘Your father—meaning ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud—told me that a tree informed him of them.’ [Agreed upon]