784 — “There is no contagion, no belief in ill omens, and no ghoul.”

Muslim (7/32) and Aḥmad (3/293, 312) recorded it through several routes from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, with this wording. Ibn Jurayj also narrated it: Abū al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh relate it with this wording, except that he said, “and no Ṣafar,” in place of “and no belief in ill omens.” Muslim also recorded it, as did al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/378) and Aḥmad (3/381).

785 — “There is no contagion, no Ṣafar, and no hāmah.”

Muslim (7/31), al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/378), and Aḥmad (3/449–450) recorded it from al-Zuhrī, who said: Al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd, the son of Numayr’s sister, narrated to me, attributing it to the Prophet, with this wording.

786 — “There is no contagion and no belief in ill omens, and I like a good omen: a kind word.”

Al-Bukhārī (10/175), Muslim (7/33), Abū Dāwūd (2/158), al-Tirmidhī (1/305), who authenticated it, al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/378), al-Ṭayālisī (no. 1961), and Aḥmad (3/130, 154, 173, 178, 276), as well as Ibn Mājah (2/362), recorded it through several routes from Qatādah, from Anas, with this wording. In one narration recorded by Aḥmad, Qatādah explicitly stated that he heard it.

It has a corroborating report, with similar wording, from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim, as well as Aḥmad (2/266), recorded it through al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from him. It also has another route with the wording: “There is no contagion and no belief in ill omens, and I like a good omen.”