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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it true that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent some of the Companions to demolish the idols, a jinn came out of them?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it true that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent the Companions, or some of the Companions, to demolish the idols, a jinn came out of them?

Answer:
Yes. When Khalid ibn al-Walid was sent to al-'Uzza, an old woman appeared to him with her hair loose, calling out woe and misery. He struck her and split her head open, then he demolished al-Lat and al-'Uzza. When he returned to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him, [he said], "That was al-'Uzza, and there is no al-'Uzza after that." This means that you do not think they worship the stones; rather, they worship the devils who call them to worship the stones. As the Shaykh, the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, mentioned, the devils may address them from the shrine or from the idol. They think that this is the idol, or that this is the shrine, or that the dead person is speaking to them, but it is a devil doing so in order to mislead them. Yes.
And perhaps it appears in the form of the dead person. The devil appears in the form of the dead person and says to him, "What do you want? What is your need? I will fulfill it for you," and it is a devil. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [201 -939] هل صحيح أنه عندما أرسل النبي ﷺ بعض الصحابة لهدم الأصنام خرج منها جن؟ — youtube.com

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