ghosts

[hareem01]

Re: ghosts

@714

as far as i understand in Islam we believe in the unseen, but not in ghosts

you always here a lot of spooky stories that have no plausible explanation...i attribute it to maybe jinns or something

but regardless they are always stories about hauntings and whatnot

has anyone ever encountered hadith or does anyone know what the islamic perspective is on stuff like this?

I've read something very interesting in Tafseer Ibn Kathir about Jinn.
It was narrated from Abd-Allaah ibn Ubayy ibn Ka'b that his father told him
that he had a vessel in which he kept dates. He used to check on it and found
that the number was decreasing. So he kept guard on it one night and saw a
beast that looked like an adolescent boy. He said: "I greeted him with salaams
and he returned my greeting, then I asked him,What are you, a jinn or a
human?' He said, A jinn.' I said to him,Show me your hand.' So he showed me
his hand, and it looked like a dog's paw with dog's fur. I said, Do all the
jinn look like this?' He said,I know no one among the jinn who is stronger
than I.' I said, What made you do what you did *?' He
said,We heard that you are a man who loves charity, and we wanted to have
some of your food.'" Ubayy asked him, "What will protect us from you?" He said,
"This aayah, Aayat al-Kursiy." Then the next day he [Ubayy] went to the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and told him (about what had
happened) and he said, "The evil one spoke the truth."…*