Dawud reported from 'Amir who said: I asked 'Alqama if Ibn Mas'ud was present with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) on the night of the Jinn (the night when the Holy Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) met them). He (Ibn Mas'uad) said: No, but we were in the company of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) one night and we missed him. We searched for him in the valleys and the hills and said. He has either been taken away (by jinn) or has been secretly killed. He (the narrator) said. We spent the worst night which people could ever spend. When it was dawn we saw him coming from the side of Hiri'. He (the narrator) reported. We said: Messenger of Allah, we missed you and searched for you, but we could not find you and we spent the worst night which people could ever spend. He (the Holy Prophet) said: There came to me an inviter on behalf of the Jinn and I went along with him and recited to them the Qur'an. He (the narrator) said: He then went along with us and showed us their traces and traces of their embers. They (the Jinn) asked him (the Holy Prophet) about their provision and he said: Every bone on which the name of Allah is recited is your provision. The time it will fall in your hand it would be covered with flesh, and the dung of (the camels) is fodder for your animals. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Don't perform 'istinja' with these (things) for these are the food of your brothers (Jinn).

This hadith has been reported by Dawud with the same chain of transmitters up to the word (s):" The traces of their embers." Sha'bi said: They (the Jinn) asked about their provision, and they were the Jinn of al-Jazzier, up to the end of the hadith, and the words of Sha'bi have been directly transmitted from the hadith of 'Abdullah.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah from the Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) up to the words: "The traces of the embers," but he made no mention of what followed afterward.

'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) said: I was not with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) but I wish I were with him.

Ma'n reported.. I heard it from my father who said: I asked Masruq who informed the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about the night when they heard the Qur'an. He said: Your father, Ibn Mas'ud, narrated it to me that a tree informed him about that.