Al-Khatt, And Al-Iyāfah (Being Dissuaded By Birds)[1]
Darussalam · Volume 4
THE BOOK OF SOOTHSAYING AND SUPERSTITIONSSunan Abi Dawud Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 3907 ¦ الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 16
Source no. 3907 · Volume 1 · Page 2
Da‘if
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3907. It was narrated from ‘Awf (who said): “Hayyān narrated to us” – someone other than Musaddad (one of the narrators) said: “Hayyān bin Al-‘Alā” – he said: ‘Qaṭan bin Qabiṣah narrated to us, from his father, who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: ‘Al-Iyāfah, omens, and Tarq are from Al-Jibt.’[2] At-Tarq is being dissuaded, and Al-Iyāfah is Al-Khatt.” (Da’if)
3907 - حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا عَوُفٌ، حَدَّثَنَا حَيَّانُ، قَالَ: غَيْر مُسَدَّدٍ، حَيَانُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ حَدَّثَنَا قَطَنُ بْنُ قَبِيصَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «الْعِيَافَةُ، وَالطِّيَرَةُ، وَالطَّرْقُ مِنَ الجِبْتِ» الطَّرْقُ: الزَّجْرُ، وَالْعِيَافَةُ: الْخَطُّ "
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The superstition of divining a good or bad sign from the flights and sounds of birds is prohibited, and it is a kind of Shirk. Such things have no basis in Divine Law.