{
 "id": "concept/jinn",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "jinn",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجن",
  "en": "The jinn",
  "ur": "جن"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الجن في التصور الإسلامي خلق مكلّف غائب عن أعين الناس؛ يروي ابن كثير أنهم سكنوا الأرض قبل الإنسان وأن منهم الكافر والمؤمن {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}.",
  "en": "The jinn in Islamic conception are a hidden, accountable creation; Ibn Kathir reports they inhabited the earth before mankind and that among them are disbelievers and believers {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "belief",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q3465"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tafsir-ibn-kathir"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q3465; Ibn Kathir jinn creation reports verified in OCR",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-5"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجن في التصور الإسلامي خلق مكلّف غائب عن أعين الناس؛ يروي ابن كثير أنهم سكنوا الأرض قبل الإنسان، وأن منهم الكافر والمسلم {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في التفسير",
     "markdown": "ينقل ابن كثير أن الجن كانوا في الأرض قبل خلق آدم فأسكنهم الله إياها، وأن إبليس منهم {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jinn",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The jinn in Islamic conception are a hidden, accountable creation; Ibn Kathir reports they inhabited the earth before mankind, and that among them are disbelievers and Muslims {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the sources",
     "markdown": "Ibn Kathir transmits that the jinn were on the earth before Adam's creation, and that Iblis was of them {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jinn",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "اسلامی تصور میں جن ایک پوشیدہ اور مکلف مخلوق ہے؛ ابن کثیر روایت کرتے ہیں کہ وہ انسان سے پہلے زمین میں آباد تھے اور ان میں کافر اور مسلمان دونوں ہیں {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ میں",
     "markdown": "ابن کثیر نقل کرتے ہیں کہ جن آدم کی خلقت سے پہلے زمین میں تھے اور ابلیس انھی میں سے ہے {cite:tafsir-ibn-kathir}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jinn",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/al-sunna-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/bayan-al-sunna-lil-quran",
  "concept/bida"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}