Hadith 3732

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ ، عَنْ مَالِكٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِهَذَا الْخَبَرِ وَلَيْسَ بِتَمَامِهِ ، قَالَ : فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَا يَفْتَحُ بَابًا غَلَقًا ، وَلَا يَحُلُّ وِكَاءً ، وَلَا يَكْشِفُ إِنَاءً ، وَإِنَّ الْفُوَيْسِقَةَ تُضْرِمُ عَلَى النَّاسِ بَيْتَهُمْ أَوْ بُيُوتَهُمْ .
Jabir bin Abdullah reported the Prophet ﷺas saying this version is not complete ‘’for the devil does not open a shut door, or loosen a water-skin, or uncover a vessel, for a mouse sets a house on fire over its inhabitants’’.
Hadith Reference سنن ابي داود / كتاب الأشربة / 3732
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
Benefit:
It has been medically established that sleeping at night after extinguishing the light brings much greater comfort and tranquility.
Sleeping while leaving a lamp or similar light burning carries the harm
that has been mentioned in the hadith.
Sleeping while leaving an electric or gas heater, or a coal brazier burning is also very harmful.
Many reports have been heard and read
that fires break out because of them,
and sometimes people die from suffocation.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 3732