Umar's encounter with the ghul before Islam

The books of history and reports mention that Umar ibn al-Khattab met the ghul on one of his journeys before Islam; in some versions he heard its wailing at night or saw it, and the scholars have classed these reports among the weakly transmitted lore of the jinn ^{1 2}.

The ghul is one of the creatures of the jinn in the Arabic books of lore: the books of natural history describe it as a being that takes a woman's or man's shape to mislead the traveller in the wilderness; its reports in this browser are gathered under its concept record ¹. This episode joins the rest of what the lore books record of humans meeting jinn before Islam.

This page belongs to the weakly transmitted category; the browser shows it with transparent documentation because the browser's original brief was to gather 'everything mentioned and written' about jinn and devils, while keeping reliable and unreliable material visibly distinct ^{1 2}.