They were similar to humans in many ways and in many legends, God sent prophets to them, just as prophets were sent to humans. In Persian Islamic legends, the world was ruled by Jann ibn Jann ( Son of Jann), two thousand years before Adam was created. Thereupon God sent the angels from heaven under the command of Azazil to defeat the jinn and drive them to the far islands. His descendants multiplied and shed blood. Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi explains that, after God created the world, he created al-jann from smokeless fire ( Arabic: مَارِجٍ مِن نَّار, mārijin min nār. Quranic exegesis links the angels' complaining about the creation of Adam (Surah 2:30) to witnessing the corruption of the offspring of al-jann, the previous ruler of the world. Another hadith, mentioned in the collection of Al-Tirmidhi, reports that Muhammad sought refuge in God from Al-Jann, the father of jinn, until Surah Al-Nas and Surah Al-Falaq had been revealed. Sahih Muslim describes Al-Jann as being created out of a mixture of fire, contrasted with the angels created from light and humans created from clay-mud. In Surah 27:10, it is related to the staff of Moses while turning into a serpent. However, the majority distinguishes between Iblis, the father of devils and Jann the father of jinn. The tradition of Hasan al Basri considers Iblis and al-jann to be identical. Mufassir (authorized exegetes of the Quran) disagree if this refers to Iblis or to a separate creature who is father of all jinn, in contrast to Iblis as the father of shayatin (devils). In the Quran, Surah 15:27 and 55:15, jânn (in contrast to many translations of the Quran using the term jinn instead) is said to be created from fire, and taken to be the ancestor of all jinn. Īmira el-Zein reports that the term jann is used to specify when the term jinn covers both angels and jinn in meaning.
Lisan al-'Arab, by Ibn Manzur, gives the following account on the term: "Creatures called jânn lived on earth but they caused mischief in it and shed blood, so God sent his angels who drove them away from the earth and it is said that these angels became the inhabitants of the earth after the jânn. The term designate a supernatural creature or a serpent. It is a neuter singular for jinn, while Jinni and Jinniyya(h) are either adjectives, or masculine and feminine singulars or both. Jann (from the Semitic root JNN) is an Arabic term, whose primary meaning is "to hide" and can also refer to an agile snake. The father of the jinn is also called Abu Al-Jann. In folklore however, many consider them to be punished and turned into the weakest class of jinn, comparable to the way in which apes are seen as transformed humans. They are said to have inhabited the earth before Adam, ruled by a king called Jann ibn Jann. Jann ( Arabic: جان, romanized: Jānn, plural Arabic: جِنَّان, romanized: Jinnān or Arabic: جَوَان, romanized: Jawān) are the ancestor of the jinn in Islam.
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