I heard ‘lkrimah (recite): “And (remember) when We sent towards you (Muhammad ﷺ” and it was recited to Sufyan from az-Zubair, ʿa group (three to ten persons) of the jinn, (quietly) listening to the Qurʿanʿ (al-Ahqaf [46:29]). He said: “[That was] in Nakhlah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was praying Ishaʿ, and they (the jinn) just made round him a dense crowd as if sticking one over the other (in order to listen to the Prophet’s ﷺ recitation)” (al-Jinn [72:19]). Sufyan said: “They were one above the other, like thick masses of clouds one above the other.”  

عَمْرٌووَسَمِعْتُ عِكْرِمَةَ {وَإِذْ صَرَفْنَا إِلَيْكَ} وَقُرِئَ عَلَى سُفْيَانَ عَنِ الزُّبَيْرِ {نَفَرًا مِنَ الجِنِّ يَسْتَمِعُونَ الْقُرْآنَ} [الأحقاف 29] قَالَ بِنَخْلَةَ وَرَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُصَلِّي الْعِشَاءَ الْآخِرَةَ {كَادُوا يَكُونُونَ عَلَيْهِ لِبَدًا} [الجن 19] قَالَ سُفْيَانُ اللُّبَدُ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ كَاللِّبَدِ بَعْضُهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ