Sayyidina Ibn Abbas (RA) reported that neither did Allah’s Messenger (SAW) recite to the jinns nor did he see them. While Allah’s Messenger (SAW) came out with a group of his sahabah intending to go to the market of Ukkaz, a screen was put up between the devils and the news from heaven (revelation), and flames were fired upon them. So, the devils returned to their kind. They asked, “What is with you?” And they answered, “There is a screen between us and news from heaven and flames of fire are aimed at us.” They said, “Nothing is interrupting between us and heavenly news but a fresh event (or command). So, travel to the east of the earth and its west and observe what is it that intervenes between you and news from heaven. So they travelled to the easts of the earth and its wests seeking to investigate what hindered them from heavenly news. They who had set out towards Tihamah came upon Allah’s Messenger (SAW) while he was at Nakhlah headed for the market of Ukkaz. He was praying the salah of fajr with his sahabah. When they heard the Qur’an, they paid attention to it and said to each other, “This, by Allah, is what came up between us and news from heaven.” They returned to their kind and said to them: 0 our people:
"They said, 'We have really heard a wonderful Recital! It gives guidance to the Right, and we have believed therein: we shall not join (in worship) any (gods) with our Lord." (72 : 1-2)
So, Allah the Blessed and the Exalted, revealed to His Prophet (SAW)
"Say: It has been revealed to me that a company of Jinns listened (to the Qur'an). (72: 1)
And the words of the jinns were revealed to the Prophet exactly (as they were).
And, through the same isnad, it is reproted by Ibn Abbas (RA the saying of the jinns to their fellow-beings:
"Yet when the Devotee of Allah stands forth to invoke Him, they just make round him a dense crowd." (72 :19)
That is, when they saw him offer salah and his sahabah also offering salah with him, prostrating with his prostration, they were surprised at their obedience. They said, to their kind:
"Yet when the Devotee of Allah stands forth to invoke Him, they just make round him a dense crowd."(72: 79)
[Bukhari 773, Muslim 449]