Jinn dwelling in humans

 

Can a jinn enter the body of a human?

Praise be to Allaah. 

Imaam Shaykh al-Islam said in his Fataawa
after some introductory comments:

… For this reason, a group of the Mu’tazilah, such as al-Jabbaa’i,
Abu Bakr al-Raazi and others, denied that the jinn enter the body of
the epileptic, although they do not deny the existence of the jinn,
because that is not as clearly mentioned in the reports narrated from
the Messenger   (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) as their existence is mentioned. They
were mistaken in this matter. Hence al-Ash’ari mentioned in Maqaalaat
Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah that they [Ahl al-Sunnah] believe
that the jinn may enter the body of the epileptic, as Allaah says (interpretation
of the meaning):

‘Those
who eat Riba will
not stand (on the Day of Resurrection) except like the standing of a
person beaten by Shaytaan (Satan) leading him to insanity…’

[al-Baqarah 2:275]

 ‘Abd-Allaah ibn al-Imaam Ahmad said: I told my father that some
people claim that the jinn do not enter the body of a human. He said,
O my son, they are lying, for a jinn may speak with the tongue of a
person who is lying on his sick-bed. (Majmoo’
Fataawa Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah, 19/12). He also said
(may Allaah have mercy on him), in vol. 24 of his Fataawa
(p. 276, 277):

“The existence of the jinn is proven by the Book of Allaah and the
Sunnah of His Messenger (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and by the consensus of the salaf
and scholars of this ummah. Similarly, the fact that the jinn can enter
human bodies is also proven by the consensus of the imaams of Ahl al-Sunnah
wa’l-Jamaa’ah. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

‘Those
who eat Riba will
not stand (on the Day of Resurrection) except like the standing of a
person beaten by Shaytaan (Satan) leading him to insanity…’

[al-Baqarah 2:275]

In al-Saheeh it is narrated
that the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘The Shaytaan flows through the son of
Adam as his blood flows…

There is no one among the imaams of the Muslims who denies that the
jinn enter the body of the epileptic. Whoever denies that and claims
that Islam denies that is telling lies about the sharee’ah, for there
is no evidence in sharee’ah to say that this is not the case…”