Chapter 282: About the Forbiddance of Consulting the Foretellers and the Soothsayers

Translation: 942. Narrated Abu-Huraira; ' The Prophet said: " When Allah has ordained some affair in the heaven, the angels beat with their wings in obedience to His Statement, which sounds like a chain dragged over a rock. Until when fear is banished from their (the angels ") hearts, they (angels) say: " What has your Lord said? " They say: " The truth; and He is the Most High, the Most Great. ' Then those who eavesdrop (the devils) will hear Allah's Statement, stand one over the other like this. (Sofyan, illustrated it by spreading the fingers of his right hand and placed them one over the other horizontally.) A clear flaming fire may overtake and burn the eavesdropper before conveying the news to the one below him; or it may not overtake him till he has conveyed it to the one below him, who, in turn, conveys it to the one below him, and so on till they convey the news to the earth. (Or probably Sofyan said; ' Till the news reaches the earth.) Then the news is inspired to a sorcerer (or a foreteller) who would add a hundred lies to it. His prophecy will prove true (as far as the heavenly news is concerned). The people will say; ' Didn't he tell us that on such and such a day, such and such a thing will happen? We have found that that was true because of the true news heard from heaven. " (Bukhari).

Translation: 943. Narrated A'isha, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ ; ' I heard Allah's Messenger saying: " The angels descend in the clouds and mention this or that matter decreed in the heaven. The devils listen stealthily to such a matter, come down to inspire the foretellers with it, and the latter would add to it one hundred lies of their own. " (Bukhari).

Translation: 944. Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'oud; " The Messenger of Allah said: “ Evil omen is a form of polytheism. And none of us except that he has a portion of it, but Allah eliminates it through putting one's trust in Him. " (At-Termizi).

Translation: 945. Narrated Abu-Mas'oudol Ansari; ' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the dog's price, the prostitute's wage, and the soothsayer's compensation. ' (At-Termizi).