سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْجِرِّيِّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَسَخَ طَائِفَةً مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَمَا أَخَذَ مِنْهُمُ الْبَحْرَ فَهُوَ الْجِرِّيُّ وَ الزِّمِّيرُ وَ الْمَارْمَاهِي وَ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ وَ مَا أَخَذَ مِنْهُمُ الْبَرَّ فَالْقِرَدَةُ وَ الْخَنَازِيرُ وَ الْوَبْرُ وَ الْوَرَلُ وَ مَا سِوَى ذَلِكَ .
Translation
Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Hamdany, from Sama’at Bin Mihran, from Al Kalby Al Nasaba who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the catfish, so he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Metamorphosed a group from the Children of Israel, so whatever of them which the ocean seized, so it is the catfish, and the glyptothorax (mountain catfish), and the sea horse, and what is besides that; and what the land seized from them, so it is the monkeys, and the pigs, and the (short-haired) rabbit, and the lizard, and what is besides that’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
Source
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