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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:16716a –
Translation not available.
السيوطي:١٦٧١٦a –

"كُفُّوا صِبْيَانَكُم عِنْدَ الْعِشَاءِ؛ فَإِنَّ لِلْجِنِّ انْتِشَارًا وَخَطَفَةً".

[د] أبو داود وأَبو عوانة عن جابر

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abudawud:3733 – Musaddad And Fuḍayl b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Sukkarī > Ḥammād > Kathīr b. Shinẓīr > ʿAṭāʾ > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh Rafaʿah > Wākfitūā Ṣibyānakum ʿInd al-ʿIshāʾ

Gather your children when darkness spreads, or in the evening (according to Musaddad), for the jinn are abroad and seize them.

أبو داود:٣٧٣٣ – حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ وَفُضَيْلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ السُّكَّرِيُّ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ شِنْظِيرٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ

وَاكْفِتُوا صِبْيَانَكُمْ عِنْدَ الْعِشَاءِ وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ عِنْدَ الْمَسَاءِ فَإِنَّ لِلْجِنِّ انْتِشَارًا وَخَطْفَةً