Question: Is there any truth behind the myth that humans can be possessed by jinns? The Jinn - Views from Quran & Ahadith, Actions & Precautionary Measures Question: Is there any truth behind the myth
that humans can be possessed by jinns?
The Holy Prophet Isa Imaam Ahmad has narrated in his Musnad and Imaam Abu Dawood in his Sunan the hadith of Matr ibn Abdur Rahman Al-Anaq. He says: ‘Umm Aban binte al-Wazi ibn Zare ibn Aamir Al-Abdi narrates from her
father that her grandfather Az-Zare’ went to the Holy Prophet “When we came to the Holy Prophet He further says, “I took him to the Holy Prophet He also commanded for his clothes to be taken off. Then he raised his hands and put them on the child’s back in such a way that I saw his armpits. He was saying, “Come out O’ enemy of Allah! Come out O’ enemy of Allah!” Then the boy began to gaze with his true eyes and not with the previous gaze. Then the Holy Prophet After the Holy Prophet’s Imaam Ahmad says in his Musnad that Abdullah ibn Nameer narrated to us from Uthman ibn Hakeem, he says: “Abdur Rahman ibn Abdul Aziz informed us about Ya’la ibn Murrah that
he said, ‘Surely I have seen three things from the Messenger of Allah I went with the Holy Prophet The Holy Prophet They lifted him up and the Holy Prophet Then he said, ‘In the name of Allah. I am his servant. Come out O’ enemy of Allah.’ Then he returned the child to the woman and said, ‘Meet us on our return, at this place, and inform us about his actions.” The narrator says, “We went and then we returned to find her in that
place. She had three goats with her. The Noble Prophet She replied, ‘I swear by the name of the Divine Being who sent you with the truth that up to now we have not perceived anything from him. Sacrifice these goats.’ The Holy Prophet Wakee’ narrates that Al-Amash conveyed to us from Al-Madinah ibn Amr who narrates from Ya’la ibn Murrah who says that his father said: “A woman came to the Holy Prophet He says the child became healthy and the woman gifted to the Prophet Ya’la ibn Murrah Ash-Thaqafee The narrator says, “Then we went and when we returned from our journey
we passed by that place. That woman came to the Holy Prophet The Holy Prophet Question: Is it permissible to write the aayaat
(verses) of the Glorious Qur’aan for
the ill and to use Ruqyah (taweez)?
Imaam Ahmad and others who have specified it say, Abdullah ibn Ahmad relates, ‘I read to my father the hadith from Hazrat Ibn Abbas ![]() On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof. (Naziat:46)
Then my father said, “Aswad ibn Aamir has related with this chain of narrators and in this meaning.” He has also said, “It should be written on a clean plate then drunk.” My father further said, “Wakee’ has elaborated upon this, he says, ‘Water should be sprinkled below her navel.(by those for whom it is permissable)” Abdullah says, “I saw my father write for a woman in a goblet or something clean.” Ali says that it should be written on a piece of paper then tied to the woman’s arm. Ali further says, “We tried it out, we never saw anything stranger than that. Once when the woman has given birth it should be unfastened quickly and wrapped in a piece of cloth or burned.” |