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1001. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "There are four matters in my nation that are from the matters of Jahiliyyah which the people will not leave: Wailing, slandering one's lineage, Al-'Adwā[1] – a camel gets mange, so one hundred camels get mange – but who gave the first camel mange? And Al-Anwā' (saying): 'We got rain because of this or that celestial positioning.'" (Hasan)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadith is Hasan.
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Al-'Adwā is an infectious disease. This statement makes it clear that the thinking of the people of Jahiliyyah was wrong and disease did not pass to another animal by itself, but goes to another animal by the will of Allāh ﷺ. As the first person gets some disease with the will of Allāh ﷺ, the same way the second and third get the disease by the will of Allāh ﷺ.