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Abdullah b. Mas'ud reported in connection with the words of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious:" Those to whom they call upon, themselves seek the means or access to their Lord as to whoever of them becomes nearest" (xvii. 57) that it related to a party of Jinn who were being worshipped and they embraced Islam but those who worshipped them kept on worshipping them (though the Jinn whom the misguided people worshipped had become Muslims). It was then that this verse was revealed

حدثنا ابو بكر بن ابي شيبة، حدثنا عبد الله بن ادريس، عن الاعمش، عن ابراهيم، عن ابي معمر، عن عبد الله، في قوله عز وجل { اوليك الذين يدعون يبتغون الى ربهم الوسيلة ايهم اقرب} قال كان نفر من الجن اسلموا وكانوا يعبدون فبقي الذين كانوا يعبدون على عبادتهم وقد اسلم النفر من الجن