The Hinn are a type of jinn closely related to animals. They are supernatural creatures, besides jinn and devils, in Arabian lore and also a group of pre-Adamic race in Islam-related beliefs.
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Hinn have been alternatively said to be associated with air and another creature, binn, with water in a document called "Revelations of ʻAbdullah Al-Sayyid Muhammad Habib". In the same document, hinn and binn are said to be extinct, unlike jinn.
According to Ibn Kathir, the hinn belongs together with the jinn to those creatures who shed blood on Earth before humankind, causing the angels to question God's command to place Adam as a viceregent. In his work Al-Bidāya wa-n-Nihāya, he relates that the Hinn and binn were exterminated by the jinn so that they could dwell on the earth.
Muhammad Al-Tahir ibn Ashur states in his work that the hinn and binn may be a reference to Persian mythology or the ancient Greek Titans, who were driven away by their deities. Although many sources describe the hinn and binn as powerful gigantic primordial creatures, Al-Jahiz mentions them as a "weak type" of demons in his Kitāb al-Ḥayawān.