Azami 737

Muslim narrated it in the Book of Prayer (450), from Muhammad bin Muthanna, who said, Abdul-Ala narrated to us, from Dawud, from Amir, who said, "I asked Alqama, 'Was Ibn Masud present with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the night of the jinn?'" He said, Alqama then related it.Ibn Ishaq held the view that the jinn's listening to the Quran took place on the night of the Prophet's return from Taif to Makkah, as mentioned in Sirat bin Hisham (1/421-422). The correct view is that this occurred years before his journey to Taif, as many of the verifying scholars have stated.The Quran contains evidence indicating that messengers were sent to their own peoples from among their own kind, so that the proof would be more compelling and the excuse more decisively removed. So were messengers sent to the jinn from among themselves, or were they merely followers of the descendants of Adam? More than one scholar has related a consensus that no messengers were sent to the jinn from among the jinn themselves, and that they were rather followers of mankind in this regard.The exception is what has been related from Dahhak bin Muzahim, that messengers were sent to the jinn from among themselves, basing this on the words of Allah Most High, "O company of jinn and mankind, did there not come to you messengers from among you, relating to you My verses and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours" [Anam 6:130].As for the words of Allah Most High, "And nothing has prevented mankind from believing when guidance came to them except that they said, 'Has Allah sent a human being as a messenger?' Say, 'If there were upon the earth angels walking securely, We would have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as a messenger'" [Isra 17:94-95], this contains a comparison between one who lives on the earth and one who lives in the heaven. The dwelling place of both mankind and the jinn is the earth, so it is sufficient for the messenger to be a human being for both of them.