Every son of Adam's jinn companion

Al-Tirmidhi relates from the Prophet that he said 'the companion of every son of Adam from among the jinn stays with him until he is better than him or an evil like him', and in another version 'the believer's jinn companion agrees with him on good, and the disbeliever's agrees with him on evil' ¹.

Qareen in the language is one who stays constantly with a person; in this hadith a companion of jinn is paired with every son of Adam and agrees with his deeds — if the man is a believer his companion agrees with him on obedience until he becomes better than him or its like, and if he is a disbeliever it agrees with him on sin until he becomes an evil like him ^{1 2}.

This hadith belongs to the chapters explaining the jinn's direct dealing with human beings; it stands in this browser with the 'qareen' concept record and gathers with it the rest of the jinn reports in the Sunan ¹. For that reason it appears in both the jinn and devils sections.