Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3258
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ دَاوُدَ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ، قَالَ قُلْتُ لاِبْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رضى الله عنه هَلْ صَحِبَ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَيْلَةَ الْجِنِّ مِنْكُمْ أَحَدٌ قَالَ مَا صَحِبَهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ وَلَكِنْ قَدِ افْتَقَدْنَاهُ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ وَهُوَ بِمَكَّةَ فَقُلْنَا اغْتِيلَ أَوِ اسْتُطِيرَ مَا فُعِلَ بِهِ فَبِتْنَا بِشَرِّ لَيْلَةٍ بَاتَ بِهَا قَوْمٌ حَتَّى إِذَا أَصْبَحْنَا أَوْ كَانَ فِي وَجْهِ الصُّبْحِ إِذَا نَحْنُ بِهِ يَجِيءُ مِنْ قِبَلِ حِرَاءَ قَالَ فَذَكَرُوا لَهُ الَّذِي كَانُوا فِيهِ فَقَالَ " أَتَانِي دَاعِيَ الْجِنِّ فَأَتَيْتُهُمْ فَقَرَأْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ " . فَانْطَلَقَ فَأَرَانَا آثَارَهُمْ وَآثَارَ نِيرَانِهِمْ . قَالَ الشَّعْبِيُّ وَسَأَلُوهُ الزَّادَ وَكَانُوا مِنْ جِنِّ الْجَزِيرَةِ فَقَالَ " كُلُّ عَظْمٍ لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ يَقَعُ فِي أَيْدِيكُمْ أَوْفَرَ مَا كَانَ لَحْمًا وَكُلُّ بَعْرَةٍ أَوْ رَوْثَةٍ عَلَفٌ لِدَوَابِّكُمْ " . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " فَلاَ تَسْتَنْجُوا بِهِمَا فَإِنَّهُمَا زَادُ إِخْوَانِكُمْ مِنَ الْجِنِّ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
‘Alqamah said: I asked Ibn Mas‘ud, may Allah be pleased with him, ‘Did anyone among you accompany the Prophet on the Night of the Jinn?’ He replied, ‘None of us accompanied him. One night in Makkah, we could not find him. We thought he had been assassinated or carried off, and wondered what had happened to him. We spent the worst night a people could spend. At daybreak—or just before dawn—we saw him coming from the direction of Hira.’ They told him what they had feared. He said, ‘A caller from the jinn came to me, so I went to them and recited to them.’ He then went and showed them their tracks and the traces of their fires. Al-Sha‘bi said: They asked him for provisions; they were jinn from al-Jazirah. He said, ‘Any bone on which Allah’s name was not mentioned, when it comes into your hands, will have more meat than it had; and every dropping of dung is fodder for your mounts.’ The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Do not clean yourselves after relieving yourselves with either of these, for they are provisions for your brothers among the jinn.’ Abu ‘Isa said: This is a hasan sahih hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
Kept the uncertainty in the time of their seeing the Prophet and his two alternatives, ‘assassinated’ or ‘carried off.’ Distinguished the Prophet’s statement from al-Sha‘bi’s detail about the jinn’s provisions.