24 – Al-Qurashi said—and Ishaq ibn Isma‘il narrated to us—he stated: “Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah related to us, from Thawr ibn Yazid, from Khalid ibn Ma‘dan, who said:

‘There is no human being except that a devil is nestled in the joints of his spine, twisting its neck over his shoulder, its mouth gaping above his heart.’”