Our Lord, we lie. When the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, recited it after that to his human companions, they did not say anything of what the jinn had said. So the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said to them, “I recited it to your brothers among the jinn, and they listened to it better than you. What was said to them, so which of the favors of your Lord?” You will deny unless they say, “Not by any of your blessings. Our Lord, we will lie.”

We have narrated a strange hadith from one of this group of jinn. It was narrated to me by the blind man, Ibrahim bin Sulayman, in my house in Aleppo. He is from Deir al-Rumman, from the works of al-Khabur, on the authority of a trustworthy woodcutter who was He killed a snake, so the jinn kidnapped him and brought him to the hands of an old sheikh among them, the leader of the people. They said to him, “This killed our cousin.” The woodcutter said, “I don’t know what you are sayi