Collection: Sahih Muslim

Sahih Muslim 12956

Nafi’ reported that Ibn ‘Urnar used to kill all types of snakes until Abu Lubaba b. ‘Abd al-Mundhir Badri reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) had forbidden the killing of the snakes of the houses, and so he abstained from it.

Sahih Muslim 12949

He who visits a diviner (‘Arraf) and asks him about anything, his prayers extending to forty nights will not be accepted.

Sahih Muslim 12951

‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) commanded the killing of a snake having stripes over it, for it affects eyesight and miscarries pregnancy.

Sahih Muslim 12952

The short-tailed snake and the snake having stripes over it should be killed.

Sahih Muslim 12953

Kill the snakes having stripes over them and short-tailed snakes, for these two types cause miscarriage (of a pregnant woman) and they affect the eyesight adversely. So Ibn ‘Umar used to kill every snake that he found. Abu Lubaba b. ‘Abd al-Mundhir and Zaid b. Khattab saw him pursuing a snake, whereupon he said: They […]

Sahih Muslim 12955

Find it out and kill it. Abu Lubaba said: Don’t kill them, for Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the killing of the snakes found in houses.

Sahih Muslim 12940

If bad luck were to be in anything, it is found in the land, in the servant and in the horse.

Sahih Muslim 12941

I said: Messenger of Allah, there were things we used to do in the pre-Islamic days. We used to visit Kahins, whereupon he said: Don’t visit Kahins. I said: We used to take omens. He said: That is a sort of personal whim of yours, so let it not prevent you (from doing a thing).