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2061. Ḥayyah bin Ḥābis At-Tamīmī narrated: “My father narrated that he heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saying: ‘There is nothing to Al-Hām,[1] and the eye is real.’” (Hasan)
Hadith 2061
What Has Been Related About: The (Evil) Eye Is Real, And Washing Due To It
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Darussalam · Volume 4
26. Chapters On Medicine From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺJami at-Tirmidhi Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 2061 · Volume 5 · Page 61
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٢٠٦١ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَفْصٍ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَبُو غَسَّانَ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي حَيَّةُ بْنُ حَابِسٍ التَّمِيمِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «لَا شَيْءَ فِي الْهَامِ»، وَالْعَيْنُ حَقٌّ.
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[1] It also comes in the Aḥādīth as Hammah, and there are a number of explanations about what kind of superstition it was, these included a worm that comes out of the head of a murdered person until he is avenged; an owl that they thought was an omen if it stayed near the house; and a bird that came from the bones of the dead. See Faṭḥ Al-Bārī and Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhī.
Commentary
By decrying Al-Hām the Prophet ﷺ means to disparage superstitions prevalent in the pre-Islamic Arab society which said that if an owl was seen sitting on a house it foreboded the death of someone in the family, or that the spirit of the murdered man would hover over the house in the form of a skull crying “Give me the drink, give me the drink” (meaning thereby the murderer’s blood) until the victim’s death was avenged.