Ibn Hibbān narrated it in his Sahīh. Al-Hākim also narrated it from him in an abridged form and said, “Its chain of transmission is sound” (p. 234).

Sound. It is documented in Silsilat al-Ahādīth al-Sahīha, no. (331).

299 – (It has been reported that Ibn Masūd (may Allah be pleased with him) forbade his wife from using such pre-Islamic incantations. She said to him, “One day I went out, and so-and-so caught sight of me. The eye on the side facing him then began to water”—meaning that he had afflicted her with a malicious, envious eye—“Whenever I treated it with an incantation, the watering subsided, but whenever I stopped, it returned.” Ibn Masūd told her, “That is Satan. When you obey him, he leaves you alone, but when you disobey him, he pokes you in the eye with his finger. Had you instead done as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did, it would have been better for you and more likely to bring about your recovery: sprinkle water into your eye and say, ‘Remove the affliction, Lord of mankind. Heal; You are the Healer. There is no healing except Your healing—a healing that leaves no illness behind.’” Ibn Mājah, whose wording this is; Abū Dāwūd in an abridged version; and al-Hākim in a version more abridged than either of theirs) (p. 235).

Sound. This completes the preceding hadith as recorded by Ibn Mājah (3530).

300 – (He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “He is not one of us who takes omens or has them taken for him, has a soothsayer divine for him, or practices sorcery or has it practiced for him.” Al-Tabarānī narrated it from Ibn Abbās with a good chain of transmission) (p. 235).

I say: That is what al-Mundhirī said (4/52), but it is open to question, as previously explained under hadith (287), where I stated that it is good by virtue of corroborating evidence.

301 – (He (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Augury by birds, belief in evil omens, and divination by drawing lines in the earth are forms of sorcery.” Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasā’ī, and Ibn Hibbān in his Sahīh) (p. 235).