How sound are the sayings that the camel was created from fire and the horse was created from wind?
It is mentioned in some narrations that camels were created from jinn, and therefore, it is prohibited to pray in their resting places, and one is commanded to perform ablution after eating their meat. It is narrated in Sunan al-Bayhaqi from Abdullah ibn Mughaffal, مرفوعًا (with an elevated chain to the Prophet): "If the time for prayer overtakes you while you are in the resting places of camels, then leave them and pray, for they are jinn created from jinn. Do you not see how they raise their noses when they run wild?" And in the Musnad, it is narrated from Jabir ibn Samurah that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded ablution after eating camel meat and forbade prayer in their resting places. If camels were created from jinn, then jinn were created from fire, according to the clear text of the Noble Qur’an in Surat Al-Hijr, verse 27. As for horses, we have not found anything in what we have reviewed that specifies what they were created from.
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