Recordings › There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth · 21 Nov 2020 › Segment 8 of 10
Do any authentic hadith prove jinn possession?
salah salat salaah namaz salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith saheeh sahih hadith saheeh hadith sound hadith al-bukhari imam bukhari sahih al-bukhari sahih bukhari saheeh al-bukhari saheeh bukhari imam al-bukhari imaam prayer leader muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice rawi raawi ruwat rijal saheeh muslim imam muslim muslim ibn al-hajjaj djinn jinnat jinni shaitan shaytaan iblis iblees shayateen shayatin akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter janna jannat koran quraan al-quran sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat sabr sabar duaa duas duaas ajr sawab thawab thawaab sawaabThe hadith cited for possession: Satan in the veins, the epileptic woman, and the weak reports
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports are weak.
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Mufti Abu Layth takes the hadith the proponents cite. The Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins of the son of Adam, he says, must be read in full: the Prophet, walking with his wife Safiyya, passed companions and came back to explain who she was, and when they protested that they would never doubt him he said that Satan runs in the veins of the son of Adam; the hadith means that negative, suspicious thoughts are human and should not be acted on, not that people are possessed. He then cites a Bukhari report they ignore: Ibn Abbas pointed out a woman of Paradise who had come to the Prophet saying she suffered epileptic fits in which she became uncovered, and the Prophet told her she could be patient and receive an immense reward or he could pray for her; she chose patience and asked only that she not be uncovered, which shows the Prophet treating epilepsy as an illness, since he would not tell her to be patient with a devil. He says the remaining reports are weak: a report in Ibn Majah and elsewhere in which the Prophet strikes a man's chest and blows on him has Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Ansari [?] in its chain, whose memory a critic said failed badly and who appears in Ibn Adi's al-Kamil, and al-Nawawi noted that the authentic version in Sahih Muslim has the man complaining of difficulty remembering in prayer, being taught a supplication and patted on the back, with no demons; and a report by Ya'la [?] of a child cured of a demon on a journey, which its narrator says no one else witnessed, has problematic narrators including Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdullah [?], and Ibn Hazm judged all of these weak. He concludes that nothing authentic supports this and that the Quran and Sunnah teach willpower, before describing the exorcism business as a billion-dollar industry drenched in physical and sexual abuse.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith cited for possession prove nothing: the Bukhari report that Satan runs in the veins concerns suspicion, the Bukhari report of the epileptic woman treats epilepsy as an illness to be borne patiently, and the remaining reports in Ibn Majah and elsewhere are weak.
“my point of saying these people is that there is nothing authentic to prove this hocus pocus”
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won't be more intelligent than that and you because you don't know you're not getting this from the quran anyway you're not getting this from the sunnah and he quoted by the way he quoted he goes on to explain uh saying the prophet used to use these to bless himself now first of all clearly mentions it's just you were swiss it's just whispers and that too where do these whispers come from these infield invites
even people whisper but that's all these negative things can do is just whisper they can just invite invite you to it it's up to you to accept it's not in any way forced upon you this is this soul goes against the quran it is so irresponsible to be pushing this kind of hocus pocus out there and just you know being a part of that just because it serves other interests or if you believe in it if a person believes in it it honestly just reflects their poor understanding of islam
that's all it does i've quoted to these people you know they don't have a single you know for a hadith now check this out they bring i'll tell you what they bring for a hadith they bring the hadith that um they that the uh which um quoted that the shaitaan runs through the veins of the devil this hadith is in bukhari now read the full hadith this is the hadith and they won't deny this is the full hadith the prophet is walking with safiya his wife she is covered up now
they walk past a group of companions who notice the prophet with a woman as they're walking off the prophet comes back and he's and he greets them and he says hi how are you doing and he says to them oh by the way i was just walking i was with sophia that's sofia so they say to the prophet that you know we would never be doubting you you know we wouldn't say something uh like we wouldn't say something that's inappropriate you know in a way they felt embarrassed that why
is the prophet justifying it to them this is what they felt i'm not saying the prophet was justifying he was just explaining the um with sofia now they felt that the prophet was justifying it to them so you know oh no no we wouldn't accuse you or we wouldn't say anything bad about you oh my god who was that woman with you so the prophet says in the shaytan yajiri that the shaitaan it runs in the veins of the son of adam now what do you understand from this hadith do you understand that oh the son of adam is possessed
that's absolutely stupid to understand that from this hadith this hadith is clearly speaking about when people are suspicious wrongfully of other people that you will have negative thoughts whether you like it or not it is human this hadith just means it is human to have negative thoughts don't be too harsh on yourselves but don't act out on them that's all the hadith means this hadith in no shape or form means that the son of adam is going to always be possessed by a devil that is just stupid and here is another
hadith that is in bukhari which they so selectively ignore you've got a hadith here that uh with the prophet that ibn abbas says shall i not show you a woman from jannah from the people of paradise they say of course he says this woman who was a particular black lady that was there and he mentions that she came to the prophet and she says oh i have sarah i have this epilepsy which they claim is all ajin by the way in the hadith she tells the prophet i have epilepsy i have these epileptic fits
and when i do i end up like obviously i become uncovered sometimes whilst i'm in a stage whilst i'm in a state of uh of a fit so she says that pray to god for me to kill me and the prophet says if you wish you could be patient and god will grant you an immense reward in the afterlife and if you wish i can pray for you and she says i will be patient then
right so okay so she says i will be patient about the epilepsy but just pray to god that i don't become uncovered with it that's all now this hadith is in bukhari now why is this hadith interesting well it's interesting because if this was the devil why is the why is the prophet telling her to be patient with the devil well that doesn't make any sense because the prophet saying oh why do you be patient with the devil as in the devil is doing this to you clearly not the prophet is saying to a look why do you you know with your condition of epilepsy if you're patient allah will give you an immense reward
for your patience so that is a hadith in bukhari which they all ignore by the way and every single hadith they bring there's only a few hadith they bring by the way nothing sahih the first one they bring which is the only one in bukhari which is nothing it's only to do with suspicion and negative thoughts nothing to do with jin possession the other hadith they bring is in ibn maja and in about and that hadith is weak it is clearly weak it is clearly uh the hadith you will have
i was just checking if i had it here i'll bring it up on the screen actually yep i have got it here actually let me bring that up so this is the hadith they bring this is in ibn imagine it's in uh that hadith is transmitted muhammad ibn abdullah ansari is in the chain who abu dhabu says became massively
became utterly unreliable his memory uh later on now he's also mentioned in the camel of ibn adi there is another narration to that which right now that's the that's that narration it's clearly it's unacceptable and even imam now we mentioned that this narration that they use that he comes to the prophet and he says oh that this is i i feel these things and the prophet kind of hits his chest and and kind of uh blows onto him and stuff like this the more authentic narration which this seems to have come from is actually in
sahih muslim in which he's telling the prophet that when he prays he has difficulty remembering and the prophet tells him a particular dua and then pats him on the back and he goes off saying that you know after that day he felt much better with the words he has no mention of any demons no mention of possession and imam noah we mentioned that that's actually the authentic narration to go with not this this is actually the weak one then they use another narration which is to do with uh you've got ya'll a particular person who says by the way i witnessed
uh something from the prophet that nobody else witnessed i had these three incidents one of them was i was traveling with the prophet and there was some uh woman with with the child and eventually the child had some demon and the prophet took it out and he says and this by the way nobody else ever witnessed this except me that's enough to tell you that just think about it demons can affect afflict anyone allegedly yet the prophet never teaches it to everyone we've never heard of and this narration in this chain you've got abdul rahman ibn abdullah aziz who
is problematic you've got this narration by man who is considered naive and ibn hasam has said all of these are the if you've got yahem consider him so my point of saying these people is that there is nothing authentic to prove this hocus pocus if you look at the quran it clearly shows you the shaitaan is only capable of giving negative thoughts it's up to you you have willpower that is the quran if you look at the sunnah the sunnah teaches that you have willpower
right these one two narrations they bring are all problematic naive they bring that popular one about negative thoughts and they try to blag it that is to do with jin possession this is a it's probably a billion dollar industry the amount of abuse that goes on from physical to sexual abuse the amount that goes on on the back of this the this industry it is drenched it is submerged in abuse and it's supported by all of these imams who are irresponsible enough to actually certify and rob a stampy
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@misc{abulayth-2020-11-21-S08, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Do any authentic hadith prove jinn possession?}}, year = {2020}, month = {11}, date = {2020-11-21}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/8/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/8/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2020-11-21-S08, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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