The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

T H E D E VI L ' S
D E C E P T I O N S
The devil came to him and said: "When the brothers come back
and find out that their sister had a child you will become defamed.
You should slaughter the baby. And she will not reveal what happened
out of fear of her brothers." So the worshiper did
Later the devil came to him and said: "Do you think that she will
keep the secret after you kill her own child? Take her, kill her and
bury her next to her son." So he killed her, buried her and covered
the grave with a big rock. He then returned to his monastery to
worship.
Later the brothers came back and inquired about their sister. The
worshiper said that she had passed away. They cried and told them
she was a great woman and pointed them to her grave. The brothers
visited the grave, mourned their sister and asked for her forgiveness.
They stayed for a few days at her grave then left.
Then the devil came to the brothers and made them see a dream.
In that dream they were told that the worshiper had killed their sister
and the proof was that she was buried in a different location (i.e.
under the rock inside the house).
When the brothers woke up they started talking to each other and
found out that they all had seen the same dream. They thought that
there must be some truth in it. So they went and uncovered the
grave that the worshiper had pointed to, and found it empty. Then
they went inside the house and found the rock as mentioned in the
dream. On digging underneath the rock they found their sister's
dead body along with that of the child.
So they went to the worshiper and forced him to disclose the secret
of what happened. He went ahead and told them the whole
story. The three brothers took him to the king's court and he was
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