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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The evidence from the Book and the Sunnah regarding the entry of the jinn into humans?

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The questioner : What are the evidence from the Book and the Sunnah regarding the entry of the jinn into humans?

The Shaykh : This is a topic that has been thoroughly explored and exhausted. The noble verse is:
as one stands who is being beaten by Satan into insanity كالذي يتخبَّطه الشَّيطان من المسِّ
[Al-Baqarah 2:275]
, and the hadiths that came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) state that among his miracles was that he expelled some of the devils from some of the sick, so the patient became active as if he had been untied from a rope. This is sufficient for you. This is a correct belief that the Muslim community accepted; except for the Mu'tazilah, and except for those who hold Mu'tazilah views, even if they are not formally of the Mu'tazilah.

The questioner : The hadith: "The devil runs through the son of Adam as blood runs"? Does this statement mean that every person is afflicted with possession?

The Shaykh : No, this is an interpretation, and this is imposing on the authentic hadith what it cannot bear. From here we enter into a very important topic that many students of knowledge may overlook, or I might say that some scholars, or at least some who claim to be scholars, may overlook. His statement (peace be upon him):
Satan runs through the son of Adam as blood runs إن الشيطان يجري من ابن آدم مجرى الدم
has a context. This context explains and clarifies to the listener of the hadith the correct intended meaning of the hadith; so when he hears it, he does not impose on it a meaning it cannot bear. The hadith is in "Sahih al-Bukhari," specifically in the chapter on i'tikaf, or in the chapter on i'tikaf that follows the book on fasting. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in i'tikaf in his mosque, so his wife Safiyyah visited him and sat with him for a while. Then he went out with her to take her to her family. He stopped with her on the side of the mosque on the road, and he was talking with her. Two men from the Ansar passed by. When their eyes fell upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and a woman beside him, they did not know her, naturally; because the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to veil themselves, even their faces, as an obligation and a special privilege for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, the noble women, the distinguished women from the noble Companions, also covered their faces, imitating the wives of the Messenger (peace be upon him), the Mothers of the Believers. So these two men did not know the woman with whom the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was standing. They walked on (walking and moving), so he said to them (may Allah's prayers and peace be upon him):
Don't hurry! It is Safiya, the daughter of Huyay (i.e. my wife). على رسلكما ؛ إنها صفية زوجتي
Sahih al-Bukhari 3281
. He said: O Messenger of Allah, if we were to doubt anyone, we would not doubt you, O Messenger of Allah. He said:
Indeed, the devil runs through the human being إن الشيطان يجري من الإنسان
And in some narrations:
through the son of Adam as blood runs من ابن آدم مجرى الدم
. If we link this hadith to its context, the intended meaning becomes clear to us:
flows through the human being, through the son of Adam, as blood flows يجري من الإنسان من ابن آدم مجرى الدم
through whispering, and not through... and possession as claimed by the one referred to in the speech...
Now we move on to hear a second question.
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