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Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar:I never heard `Umar saying about something that he thought it would be so-and-so, but he was quite right. Once, while `Umar was sitting, a handsome man passed by him, `Umar said, "If I am not wrong, this person is still on his religion of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance or he was their foreteller. Call the man to me." When the man was called to him, he told him of his thought. The man said, "I have never seen such a day on which a Muslim is faced with such an accusation." `Umar said, "I am determined that you should tell me the truth." He said, "I was a foreteller in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance." Then `Umar said, "Tell me the most astonishing thing your female Jinn has told you of." He said, "One-day while I was in the market, she came to me scared and said, 'Haven't you seen the Jinns and their despair and they were overthrown after their defeat (and prevented from listening to the news of the heaven) so that they (stopped going to the sky and) kept following camel-riders (i.e. 'Arabs)?" `Umar said, "He is right." and added, "One day while I was near their idols, there came a man with a calf and slaughtered it as a sacrifice (for the idols). An (unseen) creature shouted at him, and I have never heard harsher than his voice. He was crying, 'O you bold evil-doer! A matter of success! An eloquent man is saying: None has the right to be worshipped except you (O Allah).' On that the people fled, but I said, 'I shall not go away till I know what is behind this.' Then the cry came again: 'O you bold evil-doer! A matter of success! An eloquent man is saying: None has the right to be worshipped except Allah.' I then went away and a few days later it was said, "A prophet has appeared

حدثنا يحيى بن سليمان، قال حدثني ابن وهب، قال حدثني عمر، ان سالما، حدثه عن عبد الله بن عمر، قال ما سمعت عمر، لشىء قط يقول اني لاظنه كذا. الا كان كما يظن، بينما عمر جالس اذ مر به رجل جميل فقال لقد اخطا ظني، او ان هذا على دينه في الجاهلية، او لقد كان كاهنهم، على الرجل، فدعي له، فقال له ذلك، فقال ما رايت كاليوم استقبل به رجل مسلم، قال فاني اعزم عليك الا ما اخبرتني. قال كنت كاهنهم في الجاهلية. قال فما اعجب ما جاءتك به جنيتك قال بينما انا يوما في السوق جاءتني اعرف فيها الفزع، فقالت الم تر الجن وابلاسها وياسها من بعد انكاسها ولحوقها بالقلاص واحلاسها قال عمر صدق، بينما انا عند الهتهم اذ جاء رجل بعجل فذبحه، فصرخ به صارخ، لم اسمع صارخا قط اشد صوتا منه يقول يا جليح، امر نجيح رجل فصيح يقول لا اله الا انت. فوثب القوم قلت لا ابرح حتى اعلم ما وراء هذا ثم نادى يا جليح، امر نجيح، رجل فصيح، يقول لا اله الا الله. فقمت فما نشبنا ان قيل هذا نبي