” Then the next day he went to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and told him (about what had happened) and he said, “The evil one spoke the truth.”…

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 ayah, Ayatul Kursi. He said: “I greeted him with salams and he returned my greeting, then I asked him, ‘What are you, a jinni or a human?’ He said, ‘A jinni.’ 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. So he kept guard on it one night and saw a beast that looked like an adolescent boy. He used to check on it and found that the number was decreasing. It was narrated from ‘Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy ibn Ka’b that his father told him that he had a vessel in which he kept dates. By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, it has a tongue and two lips, and it glorifies the Sovereign (i.e., Allah) at the foot of the Throne.” This was also narrated by Muslim, without the phrase “By the One in Whose Hand is my soul…”. He said, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He repeated it several times, then he said, “Ayatul Kursi.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Congratulations upon your knowledge O Abu’l-Mundhir. It was reported in a sahih hadith from the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that it is the greatest ayah in the Book of Allah… It was narrated from Ubayy, i.e., Ubayy ibn Ka’b that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked him which ayah in the Book of Allah was the greatest. “This is Ayatul Kursi, which has a high status. Imam Ibn Kathir (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his Tafsir of Ayatul Kursi from Surat al-Baqarah: Ayatul Kursi: The Greatest verse in the Quran

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