scratch a face, cry out “woe,” tear open a collar, or loosen the hair.’ Abū Dāwūd narrated it with a sound chain.

1675 – Abū Mūsā, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Whenever a person dies and his mourners stand up saying, “Alas, mighty one! Alas, noble master!” or the like, two angels are appointed over him who prod him, saying, “Were you really like that?”’ Al-Tirmidhī recorded it and declared it ḥasan. The word lahz means striking the chest with the flat of the joined hands.

1676 – Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stated, ‘Two traits found among people amount to disbelief: maligning lineage and wailing over the dead.’ Muslim.

303 – Chapter: The prohibition of visiting soothsayers and astrologers, the ʿarrāf, practitioners of sand-divination, and those who cast pebbles, barley, and the like.

1677 – ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said: Some people asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about soothsayers, and he replied, ‘They are nothing.’ They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, they sometimes tell us something that comes true.’ He said, ‘That word of truth is snatched by a jinn; he whispers it into the ear of his ally, and they then mingle with it a hundred lies.’ Agreed upon.

In another wording recorded by al-Bukhārī, ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, related that she heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘The angels descend into the clouds and speak of what has been decreed in heaven. The devil steals a hearing and conveys it to the soothsayers, who then graft onto it a hundred lies of their own.’

His phrase fa-yuqarruhā is vocalised with a fatḥah on the yāʾ and a ḍammah on both the qāf and the rāʾ, meaning “he conveys it.” The word al-ʿinān refers to the clouds, with an open ʿayn.

1678 – Ṣafiyyah bint Abī ʿUbayd narrates—from one of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, may Allah