The Book of Greetings

Sahih Muslim

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

Sahih Muslim

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...

Sahih Muslim

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Zuhri with a slight variation of wording.

Sahih Muslim

I said: Among us there are men who draw lines and thus make divination. What about this? Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: There was a Prophet who drew lines, so whose lines agree with his line for him it...

Sahih Muslim

I said: Allah's Messenger, the kahins used to tell us about things (unseen) and we found them to be true. Thereupon he said: That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn snatches and throws into the ear of...

Sahih Muslim

It is nothing (i. e. it is a mere superstition). They said: Allah's Messenger, they at times narrate to us things which we find true. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn...

Sahih Muslim

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim

A person from the Ansar who was amongst the Companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) reported to me: As we were sitting during the night with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), a meteor shot gave a dazzling light. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: What...

Sahih Muslim

The hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri through the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

Sahih Muslim

There is no transitive disease, no ill omen, and bad luck is lound in the house, or wife or horse. Note: The majority of scholars interpret this to mean that these things in and of themselves do not transmit or...