شَكَا إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ عَبَثَ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ بِأَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ بِعِيَالِهِ فَقَالَ كَمْ سَقْفُ بَيْتِكَ فَقَالَ عَشَرَةُ أَذْرُعٍ فَقَالَ اذْرَعْ ثَمَانِيَةَ أَذْرُعٍ ثُمَّ اكْتُبْ آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ فِيمَا بَيْنَ الثَّمَانِيَةِ إِلَى الْعَشَرَةِ كَمَا تَدُورُ فَإِنَّ كُلَّ بَيْتٍ سَمْكُهُ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ ثَمَانِيَةِ أَذْرُعٍ فَهُوَ مُحْتَضَرٌ تَحْضُرُهُ الْجِنُّ يَكُونُ فِيهِ مَسْكَنُهُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, and a number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, altogether, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Abu Muhammad Al Ansary, from Aban Bin Usman, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘A man complained to him<sup>asws</sup> of the bad treatment of the people of the land with his family and his children. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘How much (height) is the ceiling of your house’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Ten cubits’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said : ‘Measure out eight cubits, then write the Verse of the Chair <a href="/#/books/quran:2#h255"><a href="/books/quran:2#h255">[2:255]</a></a> in what is between the eight to the ten, just as you go around. So in each of the rooms, it its ceiling is higher than eight cubits, so it is a meeting place, the Jinn being present in it, and in it would become its dwelling’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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