Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1484
حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَةُ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ صَيْفِيٍّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِنَّ لِبُيُوتِكُمْ عُمَّارًا فَحَرِّجُوا عَلَيْهِنَّ ثَلاَثًا فَإِنْ بَدَا لَكُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُنَّ شَيْءٌ فَاقْتُلُوهُ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَكَذَا رَوَى عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ صَيْفِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Said al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: There are inhabitants in your houses, so warn them three times. If any of them appears again after that, then kill it. Abu Isa said: This is how Ubaydullah ibn Umar transmitted this hadith, from Sayfi, from Abu Said al-Khudri.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report does not explicitly identify the inhabitants in this passage; the warning is translated without specifying them as snakes or jinn.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِنَّ لِبُيُوتِكُمْ عُمَّارًا فَحَرِّجُوا عَلَيْهِنَّ ثَلاَثًا فَإِنْ بَدَا لَكُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُنَّ شَيْءٌ فَاقْتُلُوهُ " .
The wording says inhabitants of the houses without naming their kind in this excerpt.
Should the referent remain general here, given the surrounding reports about house snakes?