Are the five places mentioned in the question (unused bedding, bathrooms, hanging clothes, embodied statues, and the place where fire is kindled) inhabited by devils and do they require cautious handling and protection, and is what has been mentioned about them true and established in the Sunnah?
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First: There is no evidence to suggest that stoves are a dwelling place for devils.
Second: There is no evidence to suggest that the devil hides behind statues, but rather he is present in places of sin.
Third: The about devils wearing hanging clothes is not authentic and is fabricated.
Fourth: It is authentically established in the that the fourth bed is for the devil if it is surplus to need, and that devils are present in uninhabited places.
Fifth: A Muslim should constantly remember Allah and seek protection from the devil through the prescribed remembrances, without exaggeration or excess.
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