Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Snakes are a transformed form of the jinn, just as apes and swine are a transformed form of the Children of Israel."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, while al-Bazzar recorded it in abridged form; its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
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