Hadith 128

[42: 2]. The enemies of Allah-azwj dispersed and the Argument of Allah-azwj was Delivered, and there is neither any might nor strength except Allah-azwj the Exalted, the Magnificent. and Allah will Suffice you against them, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing [2: 137]’’. Abu Dujanah said, ‘I took the letter and rolled it up, and carried it to my house and made it to be under my head. I spent my night. I did not take up except from a shouter shouting, ‘O Abu Dujanah! You have burnt us with these phrases. By the right of your companion-saww, please raise this letter away from us, and there will be no return for us in your house, nor in your neighbourhood, nor in any place in which this letter happens to be’. Abu Dujanah said, ‘I will not raise it until I seek permission of Rasool-Allah-saww’. Abu Dujanah said, ‘And my night was prolonged upon me from what I had heard from whining of the Jinn and their shouting and their wailing, until it was morning. I went and prayed the morning Salat with Rasool-Allah-saww and informed him-as with what I had heard from the Jinn during my night and what I had said to them. He-saww said: ‘O Abu Dujanah! Raise (the letter) from the group. By the One-azwj Who Sent me-saww with the truth as a Prophet-saww! They will be finding the pain of the torment up to the Day of Qiyamah! ’
And it is reported by Al Waili the memoriser in the book ‘Al Ibanah’, and Al Qurtubi in the book ‘Al-Tazkira’’. [154] (non-Shia source)
(The book) ‘Al-Firdows’ –
‘From Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said; ‘Whenever you see a snake in the road, so kill it, for I-saww have stipulated upon the Jinn that they will not appear in the image of the snake. The one (from the Jinn) who appears (as such), he has exposed himself’’. [155] (non-Shia source)
And I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘From what is appropriate to that and supports it, is mentioned by the commentator of ‘Diwan of Amir Al-Momineen-asws’ in its beginning whereby he said, ‘Our teacher the Alama, Mowlana Jalal Al-Deen Muhammad Al-Dawwany has transmitted from the sheikh, the scholar, the workers, the pure, the perfect, the Seyyid Say Al-Deen Abdul Rahman Al-Eyji. He said, ‘It was mentioned to me by the meritorious scholar, the pious sheikh Abu Bakr, from the sheikh Burhan Al-Deen Al-Mowsily, and he is a scholarly man, meritorious, righteous, devout –
‘We were heading from Egypt to Makkah intending the Hajj. We descended at a stop, and a serpent came out to us. The people went to kill it. A son of my uncle killed it. He was kidnapped and we were seeing his striving, and the people rushed upon the horses and the riding animals to return him, but they were not able upon that. A grievous matter resulted for us from that. When it was end of the day, he came and upon him was tranquillity and dignity. We asked him about his affair. He said, ‘It is not except that I had kill this snake which you had seen, so it was done with me what you saw, and there I was between a group of Jinn. One of them said, ‘You killed my father! ’ And one of them said, ‘You killed my brother! ’ And one of them said, ‘You kill my uncle! ’
They crowded upon me, and there was a man who clung to me and said to me, ‘Say, ‘I am pleased with Allah-azwj and with the Law of Muhammad-saww! ’’ I said that. He indicated to them that they should travel to the street. We travelled until we arrived to an aged old man upon a terrace. When we came to be in front of him, he said, ‘Free his way, and supplicate against him! He has killed our father’. I said, ‘Don’t, for the Sake of Allah-azwj! Surely were delegates to the Sacred House of Allah‑azwj. We had descended at this stop, and a snake emerged to us, so the people rushed to kill it. I struck it and killed it’. When the old man heard my words, he said, ‘Free his way! I have heard in the interior of the date plantation from the Prophet-saww: ‘One who adorns (appears) in other than his adornment (appearance) and is killed, so there is neither any wergild nor any sitting (in judgment)’’ – end. And I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘My father, holy be his soul, informed me from the sheykh, the most majestic, the glorious, the sheykh Baha Al Deen Muhammad Al Aamily, may Allah-azwj Rest his soul, from the master, the meritorious, Jamal Al Deen Mahmoud, may Allah-azwj have mercy on him, from his teacher the Allamah Al Dawany, from one of his companions that, that very event had flowed upon him except that he said, ‘I went to the toilet, and a snake appeared to me, so I killed it. And immense crowd (of