حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ عَنْ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ هَلْ صَحِبَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْلَةَ الْجِنِّ مِنْکُمْ أَحَدٌ قَالَ مَا صَحِبَهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ وَلَکِنْ قَدْ افْتَقَدْنَاهُ ذَاتَ لَيْلَةٍ وَهُوَ بِمَکَّةَ فَقُلْنَا اغْتِيلَ أَوْ اسْتُطِيرَ مَا فُعِلَ بِهِ فَبِتْنَا بِشَرِّ لَيْلَةٍ بَاتَ بِهَا قَوْمٌ حَتَّی إِذَا أَصْبَحْنَا أَوْ کَانَ فِي وَجْهِ الصُّبْحِ إِذَا نَحْنُ بِهِ يَجِيئُ مِنْ قِبَلِ حِرَائَ قَالَ فَذَکَرُوا لَهُ الَّذِي کَانُوا فِيهِ فَقَالَ أَتَانِي دَاعِي الْجِنِّ فَأَتَيْتُهُمْ فَقَرَأْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَانْطَلَقَ فَأَرَانَا آثَارَهُمْ وَآثَارَ نِيرَانِهِمْ قَالَ الشَّعْبِيُّ وَسَأَلُوهُ الزَّادَ وَکَانُوا مِنْ جِنِّ الْجَزِيرَةِ فَقَالَ کُلُّ عَظْمٍ يُذْکَرُ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ يَقَعُ فِي أَيْدِيکُمْ أَوْفَرَ مَا کَانَ لَحْمًا وَکُلُّ بَعْرَةٍ أَوْ رَوْثَةٍ عَلَفٌ لِدَوَابِّکُمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَلَا تَسْتَنْجُوا بِهِمَا فَإِنَّهُمَا زَادُ إِخْوَانِکُمْ الْجِنِّ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَی هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
جامع ترمذی · Hadith 3258
Narrated Ash-Sha'bi: that 'Alqamah said: I said to Ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him: 'Did any of you accompany the Prophet (ﷺ) on the Night of the Jinn?' He said: 'None of us accompanied him. One night, while he was in Makkah, we could not find him. We said: He has been murdered [or] snatched, what has happened to him? So we spent the worst night a people could spend until the morning' or 'it was about dawn when we saw him coming from the direction of Hira.' He said: 'They told him about what they had went through.' So he (ﷺ) said: 'Someone from the Jinn came to invite me, so I went to them to recite for them.' He said: So we went and saw their tracks and the traces of their camp fire.' Ash-Sha'bi said: They asked him about their provisions - and they were Jinns of Mesopotamia - so he said: 'Every bone upon which Allah's name has not been mentioned, that falls into your hands, and every dropping of dung is fodder for your beasts.' So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do not perform Istinja with them for indeed they are provisions for your brothers among the Jinns.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020