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Musnad Ahmed: Hadith 1435

7. 'The Musnad of az-Zubair bin al-''Awwam'

مسند احمد

1435
Musnad Ahmed
Hasan because of corroborating evidence and Da'if (Darussalam) because it is interrupted between Ikrimah and Az-Zubair]
"Urwah said:
I heard ‘lkrimah (recite): “And (remember) when We sent towards you (Muhammad (ﷺ)” and it was recited to Sufyan from az-Zubair, "a group (three to ten persons) of the jinn, (quietly) listening to the Qur"an" (al-Ahqaf [46:29]). He said: “[That was] in Nakhlah. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was praying Isha", and they (the jinn) just made round him a dense crowd as if sticking one over the other (in order to listen to the Prophet’s (ﷺ) recitation)” (al-Jinn [72:19]). Sufyan said: “They were one above the other, like thick masses of clouds one above the other.”
Reference: Musnad Ahmad 1435
Arabic/English book : Book 7, Hadith 1435