Narrated `Aisha:
Some people asked the Prophet (ﷺ) regarding the soothsayers. He said, "They are nothing." They said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ! Some of their talks come true." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "That word which happens to be true is what a Jinn snatches away by stealth (from the Heaven) and pours it in the ears of his friend (the foreteller) with a sound like the cackling of a hen. The soothsayers then mix with that word, one hundred lies."
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيٌّ، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، ح وَحَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَنْبَسَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُرْوَةَ بْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ سَأَلَ أُنَاسٌ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَنِ الْكُهَّانِ فَقَالَ " إِنَّهُمْ لَيْسُوا بِشَىْءٍ ". فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهُمْ يُحَدِّثُونَ بِالشَّىْءِ يَكُونُ حَقًّا. قَالَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " تِلْكَ الْكَلِمَةُ مِنَ الْحَقِّ يَخْطَفُهَا الْجِنِّيُّ فَيُقَرْقِرُهَا فِي أُذُنِ وَلِيِّهِ كَقَرْقَرَةِ الدَّجَاجَةِ، فَيَخْلِطُونَ فِيهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ مِائَةِ كَذْبَةٍ ".
Isnad
11 transmitters- 1Ali ibn Abi TalibMakkah/Medina/kufa · d. 40 AH/661 CE (21 Ramadhan)
- 2Hisham bin 'UrwaMedina · d. 146 AH
- 3Ma'mar bin RashidBasrah/Medinah/Yemen · d. 154 AH/770 CE
- 4al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
- 5Ahmed bin Salah al-MasriEgypt · d. 248 AH
- 6'Unbasa bin Sa'id bin al-AasKufa · d. ~100 AH
- 7Yonus bin Yazid bin Abi al-Nijadd. 160 AH
- 8al-ZuhriMedinah/Syria · d. 124 AH/741 CE
- 9Yahya bin 'Urwa bin al-ZubairMedina
- 10'Urwa ibn al-ZubayrMedina · d. 93 AH/713 CE
- 11'Aisha bint Abi BakrMakkah/Medina · d. 57 AH/678 CE (17 Ramadan)
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 97, Hadith 186
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Vol. 9, Book 93, Hadith 650 (deprecated numbering scheme)