to him and said, “If they follow me, I will bring them to you; if not, I will return and stay with you.”

Al-Dārimī also transmits the report, adding: “The palm-tree came hopping toward him; then he said to it, ‘Return,’ and it went back to its place.”

In the two Ṣaḥīḥs it is related from Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān who said: I heard my father narrate: “I asked Masrūq, ‘Who alerted the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—to the jinn on the night they listened to the Quran?’ He replied, ‘Your father—meaning Ibn Masʿūd—told me that a tree informed him of them.’”

And al-Tirmidhī records, on the authority of ʿAlī, who said: “I was with the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him…"