Hinn (mythology)

Hinn are supernatural creatures, in Islamic beliefs that were created before humans and jinn.[1] According to some ahadith of tabari, the hinn belonged to a tribe of angels, led by Iblis, who once fought the unbelieving jinn on earth, who bore disaster on the world. The hinn are told to be created out of fire, like the jinn. But the hinn, who belong to Iblis´s group are created out of the fire of samum (scorching fire), which is mentioned in the Quran (15:27) while the regular jinn are created out of marij min nar (smokeless flame), which is mentioned in (55:15).[2] Alternatively, hinn have been said to be associated with air and another creature, binn, with water in a document called, "Revelations of ʻAbdullah Al-Sayid Muhammad Habib". In the same document, hinn and binn are said to be extinct, unlike jinn.[3] According to Ibn Kathir the hinn belongs together with the jinn to those creatures, who shed blood on earth before human, causing the angels to protest against Gods command to place Adam as a vicegerent.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Franz Rosenthal Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam Brill Archive 1970 page 152
  2. ↑ Lucinda Mosher, David Marshall: Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives. Georgetown University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-62616-284-6, S. 63.
  3. ↑ Ḥasan Shaukī Ḥassīb, Al Hay'at Al-kashfiyah Li H̲al Mushkilat Al-bariyah: (Revelations of ʻAbdullah Al-Sayid Muhammad Habib Concerning the Creation and the Sidereal Universe) Luzac & Company, 1909, p 21
  4. ↑ Brannon M. Wheeler Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis A&C Black 2002 ISBN 978-0-826-44957-3 page 16
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