The delegation of the jinn to the Prophet

Sahih Muslim relates that a delegation of jinn came to the Prophet in Medina by night, sat listening to his recitation of the Qur'an and his questions, and asked him what sustains them ¹.

The Prophet told them their provision is the leaves of sweet-smelling trees and the water of rivers, that their deeds are presented to them, that among them are believers and disbelievers, and ordered them to warn their people; when they asked about his wife Khadija he told them she had died and wept ¹.

It matches surah al-Jinn: 'Say: it has been revealed to me that a party of the jinn listened' al-Jinn 1, which tells of some jinn believing and calling their people to Islam al-Jinn 13.

This meeting is the most famous reported contact between jinn and humans, and the source of later lore about the jinn delegation in the books of seerah and lore ².