THE WORLD OF JINN AND DEMONS: POSSESSION AND EXORCISM (22) POSSESSION There are series of Hadith establishing the legality of jinn possession in Islam. Some of them are as: Umm Aban bint al-Wazi‘ bin Zari ‘ ibn ‘Amir al-‘Abdi narrated from her father, that her grandfather once went to the Prophet(SAW) with his son- or the son of his sister-who was possessed by jinn, so you can make a supplication for him’. The Prophet (SAW) said: ‘Bring him to me’. So I went back to the convoy where I had left him, untied him, dressed him with new clothes and brought him to the Prophet(SAW). He said:‘Bring him down so I can have access to his back’. When he (SAW) got hold of him, he (SAW) started striking him on his back, yelling: get out, enemy of Allah.’ Suddenly, the boy started to look well- a look which was different from the previous one- then the prophet (SAW) seated him, and wipe his face. After the supplication of the Prophet (SAW), no one was preferred more than him (Abu-Dawud 3, NO.5206). Ya ‘la ibn Murrah said: I have seen three things from the Prophet (SAW) that no one has seen before me or will see after me: We set out on a journey, and on our way we met a woman sitting on the ground with her son. She said:’ O Messenger of Allah, this is a boy, who is stricken by an illness, which harm him and both of us; he gets possessed many times during the day’. He (SAW) said: ‘bring him to me’. She handed him to the Prophet (SAW) and placed him between him and his mount. He spat three times deep in the boy’s mouth, saying: Bismillah ana‘Abdulllah ikhsa‘ ‘Aduwullah- in the name of Allah, I am a servant of Allah. I chase you away, enemy of Allah’. Then He (SAW) handed him back to her, and said: ‘Meet us on our way back, in this place, and tell me about his condition’.He said: ‘We went and came back, and found her in the same place, with three lambs. Then Prophet (SAW) said to her: ‘What did your boy do?’ She replied: By He Who sent you with the Truth, we have not sensed anything unusual from him so far. You may take these lambs.’ He (SAW) ordered one of his Companions to take one and return the rest to her(wiqayah 50). Jabir ibn Abdullah narrated: We set out with the Messenger of Allah(SAW) in the mission of Dhat Arriqa’, until we reached a place called ‘Harrat Waqim’, a woman came to the Messenger of Allah and said: O Messenger of Allah, this is my son, and the devil has possessed him’. He (SAW) said to her: ‘Bring him down to me’ she did, and he asked her to make him open his mouth; so he (SAW) spat inside the boy’s mouth and said: ‘I am chasing you away, enemy of Allah; I am the Messenger of Allah’, three times. Then he said to her: Do not worry about your son anymore; he will not be affected from the same thing again…(wiqayah 50). ‘Ata’ ibn Rabi‘ said: Ibn Abbas said to me: ‘shall I show you a woman of Paradise?’ I said: ‘Yes’. He said: ‘This black lady came to the Prophet and said: I sometimes suffer from fit and my body becomes uncovered; please involve Allah for me’. The Prophet (SAW) said (to her): ‘if you wish, be patient and you will have entry to Paradise; yet if you wish, I will invoke Allah to cure you’. She said: ‘I will remain patient, and added, but I become uncovered, so please invoke Allah for me that I may not be uncovered’. So he invoked Allah for her (Bukhari NO.5652). Ibn Hajar said, while interpreting the Hadith: Al-Bazzar has another narration, on the authority of ibn ‘Abbas, of this story where the woman said: ‘I fear the evil (thing) might uncover my body. The evil is Satan, and for this reason, ibn Hajar said: ‘it could be understood from the chains of this authority that Umm Zafir (the woman in question) was suffering from Sar ‘ or possession. There are numerous Ahadith confirming the possibility of jinn’s penetration into human bodies. Therefore whoever denies thesefacts is disapproving those Ahadith and thus contravening the truth as hold by Islamic Scholars.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:14:57 +0000
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