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السيوطي:١٠٦٧٧a

"الحياتُ مسخُ الجنِّ كما مُسِخَتْ القِرَدةُ والخَنَازيرُ من بنى إِسرائيل".

طب (طس، بز، باختصار ورجال البزار رجال الصحيح. وأبو الشيخ في العظمة).  

عن ابن عباس

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tabarani:11946ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Mukhtār > Khālid al-Ḥadhhāʾ > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "The snake is the transformed form of the jinn, just as monkeys and pigs were transformed from the Children of Israel."  

الطبراني:١١٩٤٦حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ السَّامِيُّ ثنا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «الْحَيَّاتُ مَسْخُ الْجِنِّ كَمَا مُسِخَتِ الْقِرَدَةُ وَالْخَنَازِيرُ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ»