787 — “There is no contagion and no belief in ill omens, and I like a good omen.”

Muslim (7/33) and Aḥmad (2/507) recorded it from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Abū Hurayrah.

788 — “There is no contagion and no belief in ill omens; ill fortune is only in three things: a woman, a horse, and a house.”

Al-Bukhārī (10/174–175, 199–200), Muslim (7/34), and Aḥmad (2/153) recorded it from Yūnus, from Ibn Shihāb, from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar, attributing it to the Prophet. See the forthcoming hadith (799), the preceding one (442), and the one that follows this.

789 — “There is no contagion, no belief in ill omens, and no hāmah. If there is an ill omen in anything, it is in a horse, a woman, and a house. When you hear of plague in a land, do not enter it; and if it occurs in a land while you are there, do not flee from it.”

Aḥmad (1/180) recorded it with this wording through Hishām al-Dustuwāʾī, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from al-Ḥaḍramī ibn Lāḥiq, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said: “I asked Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ about belief in ill omens, and he rebuked me, saying, ‘Who told you this?!’ I disliked telling him who had narrated it to me. He said: ‘The Messenger of Allah said…’” Then he cited it.

Abū Dāwūd (2/159) and al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/377, 381) also recorded it through other routes from Yaḥyā, but without the words, “When you hear…” and so on. This is likewise a narration recorded by Aḥmad (1/174). Its chain of transmission is authentic: its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs, apart from al-Ḥaḍramī ibn Lāḥiq. Ibn Maʿīn said of him: “There is nothing objectionable about him.”