The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The jinn are of three kinds. One kind has wings and flies through the air, another kind takes the form of snakes, and another kind settles and travels about."
أن رسول الله ﷺ قال: الجن على ثلاثة أصناف: صنف لهم أجنحة يطيرون في الهواء، وصنف حيات، وصنف يحلون ويظعنون.
Tabarani narrated it in Musnad Shamiyin (1956), and in Mujam al-Kabir (22/214), from Bakr bin Sahl, who said, Abdullah bin Salih narrated to us, Muawiya bin Salih narrated to me, from Abu Zahiriya Hudayr bin Kurayb, from Jubayr bin Nufayr, from Abu Thalaba Khushani, and he related it.Ibn Hibban also narrated it in his Sahih (6156), as did Hakim (2/456), and Abu Yaala as found in Matalib Aliyah (3438), all of them through routes from Muawiya bin Salih with the same wording. Hakim said, "Sahih in isnad." Haythami mentioned it in Majma (236) and attributed it to Tabarani, saying, "Its narrators are trustworthy, though there is some disagreement about some of them."His saying, "yuhilluna wa yazauna" means they settle down and they travel on.As for what was reported from Abu Darda, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Allah the Exalted created the jinn in three kinds, one kind being snakes and scorpions and the crawling creatures of the earth, one kind being like wind in the air, and one kind upon whom reckoning and punishment fall. And Allah created mankind in three kinds, one kind being like cattle, as Allah
said, "They have hearts with which they do not understand" [Araf 7:179], and one kind whose bodies are the bodies of the children of Adam while their spirits are the spirits of devils, and one kind who will be in the shade of Allah the Exalted on the day when there is no shade but His shade."This is daif. Abu Yaala narrated it as found in Matalib Aliyah (3437), and Abu Shaykh in Azamah (1081). In the isnad is Yazid bin Sinan, Abu Farwa Ruhawi, whom Ahmad, Ibn Madini, Nasai, Daraqutni, and others judged daif. His teacher Abu Munib Himsi was mentioned by Bukhari in Kuna (70), and by Ibn Abu Hatim in Jarh wa Tadil (9/440), and both of them mentioned that he narrated from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, and they mentioned nothing else about him, so he is counted among the unknown narrators.His saying, "khashash al-ard" means the vermin, insects, and creeping creatures of the earth.