A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalif, from his father, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Al Qasim Bin Suleyman, from Jarrah Al Madainy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Do not keep a hunting dog in the house except if there happens to be a door between you and it’. [15] عَنْهُ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ كَلْبِ الصَّيْدِ يُمْسَكُ فِي الدَّارِ قَالَ إِذَا كَانَ يُغْلَقُ دُونَهُ الْبَابُ فَلَا بَأْسَ .
From him, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at who said, ‘I asked about a hunting dog, to be kept in the house’. He -asws said: ‘If there was door which could be locked on it, so there is no problem’. [16] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا ( عليهما السلام ) قَالَ الْكِلَابُ السُّودُ الْبَهِيمُ مِنَ الْجِنِّ .
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Muhammad Bin yahya, from Abdullah 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 Abdullah -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’.