[33] The Dogs...

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abd Allah -asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws said: ‘ The black dog is the beast, do not eat from its prey because Rasool-Allah -saww ordered with its killing’.

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Muhammad Bin yahya, from Abd Allah Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Aban, from Zurara, (It has been narrated) from one of the two (5 th or 6 th Imam -asws ) having said: ‘The dogs, entirely black , are from the Jinn’.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Maalik Bin Atiyya, from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly who said, ‘I was with Abu Abd Allah -asws in what is between Makkah and Al-Medina, when he -asws turned to his -asws left, so there was an entirely black dog. So he -asws said: ‘What is the matter with you? Allah -azwj Made you ugly, how fiercely you rush! And it was the resemblance of a bird’. So I said, ‘What is this?

May I be sacrificed for you -asws ’. So he -asws said: ‘This is Gusaym, a postman of the Jinn. Hisham died at this time, and he (turned himself into) a bird notifying it in every city’.