Dar al-Hadith
Sunan Abi Dawud

Hadith 3916

Report an issue

Sunan Abi Dawud · Hadith 3916

This message and the hadith reference are sent privately to the administrator. Your saved commentary is not included. Please avoid personal or sensitive information. Report terms.

At-Tiyarah[2]

English source

Darussalam · Volume 4

THE BOOK OF SOOTHSAYING AND SUPERSTITIONS

Sunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation

Arabic source
Shamela Arabic edition (opens in a new tab)

الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 18

DarussalamŠahīhAl-AlbaniSahih
Al-Albani source references (1)
View bookmarks

Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.

Text and translation

English translation

3916. Muḥammad bin Al-Muṣaffā narrated to us: "Baqiyyah said: 'I said to Muḥammad bin Rāshid: "What does Hāmah mean?" He said: "During the Jāhiliyyah they said that no one died and was buried but a bird (Hāmah) came out of his grave." I said: "What does Šafar mean?" He said: "We heard that the people of the Jāhiliyyah regarded Šafar as inauspicious, so the Prophet ﷺ said: 'No Šafar.'" Muḥammad said: "And we heard someone say that it was a pain in the belly, and they used to say that it was infectious, so he said: 'No Šafar.'" (Šahīh)

Arabic text

٣٩١٦ - حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: " لَا عَدْوَى، وَلَا طِيَرَةَ، وَيُعْجِبُنِي الْفَأْلُ الصَّالِحُ، وَالْفَأْلُ الصَّالِحُ: الْكَلِمَةُ الْحَسَنَةُ "

My commentary

Personal notes

Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.

Footnotes

  1. 1

    [1] A kind of evil jinn living in the desert that could take different forms, misleading people from the path and murdering them. Regarding most of these denials, they say the meaning is, they have no power of their own, without the permission of Allāh, not that they do not actually exist, so these are prohibitions of believing in the myths claiming powers for these things.

  2. 2

    [2] Meaning, they used to toy with the months, four of which are sacred, sometimes announcing that Ṣafar is not sacred this time, and the next year it is.