The shaytan lays Bilal down in the Mecca journey

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الشيطان ينام بلالاً في سفر مكة

The Prophet reported that the shaytan came to Bilal while he stood praying and laid him down and soothed him like a child until he slept; and he reported that there is a shaytan in that valley 1 Muwatta 26.

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Al-Muwatta relates that the Prophet ﷺ stopped one night on the road to Mecca; Bilal and the company slept until sunrise, so he ordered them to ride until they left the valley, saying there is a shaytan in it, then told Abu Bakr that the shaytan had come to Bilal while he stood praying, laid him down and soothed him like a child until he slept 1 Muwatta 26.

The meaning

This report shows the shaytan besets the night prayer — he laid Bilal down while he stood until he slept — and that the shaytan dwells in certain places; hence the Prophet ordered them out of that valley 1.

Notes

Among the reports of devils dealing with the righteous in the Prophet's journeys; this browser shows it in the devils section 1.

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Muhammad· Bilal ibn Rabah· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Mecca· Evil ones among humans and jinn· Muwatta 26

People and things also explored

Muwatta 26· Mecca· The three years of the secret call· The Hijra· Bilal ibn Rabah· Muhammad· The cleansing of the Kaaba and destruction of idols· The Battle of Badr

Sources

  1. Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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