A woman touched by jinn healed by ruqya

Al-Bukhari records in the Book of Medicine that a woman touched by jinn — 'what is the matter with you, woman' the Prophet or his companions asked her — was brought for healing, and the Prophet taught her a ruqya to recite over herself ¹.

The lawful ruqya in these reports is the seeking of refuge in God's perfect words: 'in Your name, my Lord, I seek refuge from everything that harms You, and from the evil of every soul or envier — may God heal you' — from the hadith of Aisha ¹. It is the method the Sunnah gives for jinn leaving the afflicted, and its rulings are detailed in the books of fiqh and heart-softening ³.

This episode is the Sunnah's best-known example of jinn affecting human beings beyond mere whispering; the books of medicine and heart-softening gather dozens of reports of jinn leaving the afflicted, and this subject page sits with the rest of the jinn records in the browser ^{1 2}.