The Substances from which Mankind and Jinns were created
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And verily We created man Adam out of a dry clinking clay that gives off a clinking sound when it is tapped of malleable mud black mud.
And the jānn the father of the jinn namely Iblīs We created beforehand — that is before the creation of Adam — out of the permeative fire a smokeless fire that can escape through openings.
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Allah created Adam from a handful which he took from the whole of the earth ; so the children of Adam are in accordance with the earth : some red, some white, some black, some a mixture, also smooth a...
The Angels were born out of light and the Jinns were born out of the spark of fire and Adam was born as he has been defined (in the Qur'an) for you (i. e. he is fashioned out of clay).
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Indeed Allah Most High created Adam from a handful that He took from all of the earth. So the children of Adam come in according with the earth, some of them com...
‘Jābir bin Yazīd narrated to us before there took place what happened ’.
Ibn Kathir Commentary
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The Substances from which Mankind and Jinns were created
Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid and Qatadah said that Salsal means dry mud. The apparent meaning is similar to the Ayah:
خَلَقَ الإِنسَـنَ مِن صَلْصَـلٍ كَالْفَخَّارِ - وَخَلَقَ الْجَآنَّ مِن مَّارِجٍ مِّن نَّارٍ
(He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the potter's clay, And He created the Jinns from a smokeless flame of fire.) (55:14-15) It was also reported from Mujahid that,
صَلْصَـلٍ
(dried (sounding) clay) means "putrid", but it is more appropriate to interpret an Ayah with another Ayah.
مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ
(of altered mud) means the dried clay that comes from mud, which is soil. "Altered" here means smooth.
وَالْجَآنَّ خَلَقْنَـهُ مِن قَبْلُ
(And the Jinn, We created earlier) means before creating humans.
مِن نَّارِ السَّمُومِ
(from the smokeless flame of fire.) Ibn `Abbas said, "It is the smokeless flame that kills." Abu Dawud At-Tayalisi said that Shu`bah narrated to them from Abu Ishaq, who said: "I visited `Umar Al-Asamm when he was sick, and he said: `Shall I not tell you a Hadith that I heard from `Abdullah bin Mas`ud He said: `This smokeless flame is one of the seventy parts of the smokeless fire from which the Jinn where created. Then he recited,
وَالْجَآنَّ خَلَقْنَـهُ مِن قَبْلُ مِن نَّارِ السَّمُومِ
(And the Jinn, We created earlier from the smokeless flame of fire)."' The following is found in the Sahih,
«خُلِقَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ مِنْ نُورٍ، وَخُلِقَتِ الْجَانُّ مِنْ مَارِجٍ مِنْ نَارٍ، وَخُلِقَ آدَمُ مِمَّا وُصِفَ لَكُم»
(The angels were created from light, the Jinn were created from a smokeless flame of fire, and Adam was created from that which has been described to you.) The Ayah is intended to point out the noble nature, good essence and pure origin of Adam.