I had some food stored away, and I noticed it was decreasing. So one night I kept watch, and suddenly a ghoul appeared and pounced on it. I seized her and said, "I will not let you go until I take you to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."She said, "I am a woman with many dependents. I will not do it again."She swore an oath to me, so I let her go. I went and told the Prophet ﷺ what happened.The Prophet ﷺ said to me, "She lied to you, and she is a habitual liar."Then I noticed the food decreasing again. There she was, fallen upon the food, so I caught her. She said the same thing to me as before and swore she would not return. I came and informed the Prophet ﷺ.He said, "She lied to you, and she is a habitual liar."Then I noticed the food decreasing once more, so I lay in wait for her and caught her. I said, "I will not let you go until I take you to the Prophet ﷺ."She said, "Let me go and I will teach you something. If you say it, none of us will come near your belongings. When you go to your bed, recite over yourself and your property the Verse of the Throne (Ayat al-Kursi)."So I let her go, then went and told the Prophet ﷺ.He said, "She told the truth this time, though she is a habitual liar. She told the truth, though she is a habitual liar."
كان لي طعام فتبينت فيه النقصان فكنت في الليل، فإذا غول قد سقطت عليه، فقبضت عليها. فقلت: لا أفارقك حتى أذهب بك إلى رسول الله ﷺ فقالت: إني امرأة كثيرة العيال لا أعود فحلفت لي فخليتها فجئت، فأخبرت النبي ﷺ؛ فقال لي النبي ﷺ: كذبت وهي كذوب، وتبين لي النقصان قال: فإذا هي قد وقعت على الطعام فأخذتها، فقالت لي كما قالت لي في الأولى، وحلفت أن لا تعود، فجئت فأخبرت النبي ﷺ فقال: كذبت وهي كذوب. ثم تبين لي النقصان، فكمنت لها، فأخذتها فقلت: لا أفارقك أو أذهب بك إلى النبي ﷺ. فقالت ذرني حتى أعلمك شيئا إذا قلته لم يقرب متاعك أحد منا، إذا أويت إلى فراشك فاقرأ على نفسك ومالك آية الكرسي فخليتها، فجئت فأخبرت النبي ﷺ فقال: صدقت وهي كذوب، صدقت وهي كذوب.
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Bayhaqi narrated it in Dalail Nubuwwah (1107-111) from Abu Hasan Ali bin Ahmad bin Abdan, who said, Ahmad bin Ubayd Saffar told us, who said, Hamid Sulami told us, who said, Amr bin Marzuq told us, who said, Malik bin Mughul told us, from Abdullah bin Burayda, from his father, who said, and then he related it.Bayhaqi said afterward, "This is what he said, 'from Abdullah bin Burayda, from his father,' and this is different from the story of Muaz, so it is possible that both are preserved correctly."I say, in its chain is Hamid Sulami, whom I could not identify. But Bayhaqi's statement suggests that he was known to him.On this subject there is also a report from Abu Usayd Saadi Khazraji, who said, "He had a well in Madinah called Bir Budaa, into which the Prophet had spat, so he regarded it as a source of good tidings and blessing. When Abu Usayd harvested the dates of his orchard, he put them in a storeroom of his. But the ghoul kept slipping past him into his storeroom, stealing his dates and spoiling them for him. So he complained of this to the Prophet
, who said, 'That is the ghoul, Abu Usayd. Listen for her, and when you hear her breaking in, that is, her thud, say, "In the name of Allah, the Messenger of Allah has restrained me."'"The ghoul then said, 'Abu Usayd, spare me from having to go to the Messenger of Allah
, and I will give you a binding pledge from Allah that I will not slip into your house again nor steal your dates. Instead I will direct you to a verse from the Book of Allah, which you may recite over your house, so that we will not intrude upon your family nor uncover what is covered.' So he accepted from her the pledge with which he was satisfied, and she said, 'The verse I am directing you to is the Verse of the Throne.' Then she scraped her backside, breaking wind. He then came to the Prophet
and related to him the story, describing how she had gone off, and the Prophet
said, 'She told the truth, though she is a liar.'"Tabarani narrated it in Kabir (263/19) from Ali bin Abdul-Aziz, who said, Ibrahim bin Abdullah Harawi told us, who said, Abdullah bin Uthman bin Ishaq bin Saad bin Abu Waqqas told me, who said, "I heard from my maternal grandfather, Malik bin Hamza bin Abu Usayd, narrating from his father, from his grandfather Abu Usayd Saadi Khazraji," who said, and then he related it. In its chain is Abdullah bin Uthman, who is obscure, and Malik bin Hamza was deemed reliable only by Ibn Hibban, so he is "acceptable," that is, when corroborated, but I found no corroboration for him, so his hadith is weak.It is narrated from Abdullah bin Masud, who said, "A man among the companions of Muhammad
met a man from the jinn, and they wrestled, and the human threw him down. The human said to him, 'I see you as slight and emaciated, as if your two forearms were the forearms of a dog. Are you jinn all like this, or are you the only one among them who is like this?' He said, 'No, by Allah, I am indeed sturdy-ribbed among them, but wrestle with me a second time, and if you throw me, I will teach you something that will benefit you.' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Recite, "Allah, there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of all existence" [Baqarah 2:255].' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'You will never recite it in a house without the devil leaving it with a burst of wind like the wind of a donkey, after which he will not enter it until morning.'"Abu Muhammad said, "Dhaiyil means slender, shakheet means emaciated, dhalee means sturdy-ribbed, and khabaj means wind."Darimi narrated it (3382) from Abu Naeem, who said, Abu Asim Thaqafi told us, who said, Shaybi told us, who said, Ibn Masud said, and then he related it. Its chain is hasan because of Abu Asim Thaqafi, who is Muhammad bin Abu Ayub, for his hadith is hasan, except that it is only a companion's report, not traced back to the Prophet.