Is it possible for the jinn to kidnap a human being?

 

I have heard many stories about the jinn kidnapping human beings. I read a story which said that a man of the Ansaar (may Allaah be pleased with him) went out to pray ‘Ishaa’ and the jinn took him prisoner and he was lost for years. Is this possible – I mean that the jinn could kidnap a human
being?

Praise be to Allaah.

With regard to the question of possibility, it is
possible, but it is very rare. Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Jibreen (may Allaah preserve
him) answered this question as follows:

That is possible. It is well known that Sa’d ibn ‘Ubaadah was
killed by the jinn when he urinated in a hole in which was their dwelling place, and they
said, “We have killed the leader of Khazraj Sa’d ibn ‘Ubaadah; we struck
him with an arrow and we did not miss his heart.”

At the time of ‘Umar, a man was kidnapped by the jinn and stayed
with them for four years, then he came back and told the people that some mushrik
jinn had kidnapped him, and he stayed with them as a prisoner, then some Muslim jinn
launched a campaign against them and defeated them, and brought him back to his family.
This was mentioned in Manaar al-Sabeel and elsewhere.

(See Manaar al-Sabeel, 2/88. The story of the kidnapped man was
reported by al-Bayhaqi (7/445-446) and its isnaad was classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Irwaa’,
6/150, no. 1709).