Hinn
In Arabian and Islamic folklore, the Hinn are a lesser class of jinn closely associated with dogs, sometimes said to be their invisible kin or the shapes jinn take when moving unseen among humans.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Arabian folkloreIslamic mythology
- Region
- Arabia (place of origin)
- Kind
- Arabian jinn
- Trait family
- The Unseen-Walkers
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Traits
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Form
- Made of smokeless fire
why
The Hinn belong to the jinn of Arabian folklore, a category of spirit beings attested in pre-Islamic Arabian belief and later incorporated into Islamic cosmology, where jinn are described as created from smokeless fire and inhabiting a world parallel to humanity.
Behaviour
- Animal senses unseen spirit
why
In some tellings, encountering unusual canine behavior — a dog staring at or barking toward an empty space — is treated as folk evidence of an unseen Hinn's presence, a motif that persists in some contemporary Islamic folk belief about animals sensing the unseen.
- Lesser rank among spirit hierarchy
why
Classical and popular Arabic sources frequently subdivide the jinn into ranked classes — including Marid, Ifrit, Shaitan, Qareen, and Hinn — and within this scheme the Hinn are consistently placed among the weaker or lesser orders, well below the powerful Marid and Ifrit in strength and standing.
Utility powers
- Invisibility
why
Their attested traits are narrower: invisibility to ordinary human sight, an affinity for and kinship with dogs, and a diminished, subordinate status within jinn society.