1896 — “Two practices of Jāhiliyyah (the pre-Islamic Age of Ignorance) which people will never abandon are wailing over the dead and impugning lineage.”

Aḥmad related it (2/431): Yaḥyā narrated to us from Ibn ʿAjlān, who said: Saʿīd narrated to me from Abū Hurayrah; and I heard my father narrate from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said: My father said: I asked Yaḥyā, “Are both of them from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?” He replied, “Yes.” Al-Bukhārī also related it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (395), from Ibn ʿĀṣim, from Ibn ʿAjlān, through his second chain of transmission. It is a good chain of transmission, like the first. It has other routes with variant wordings; see “Four [practices] in my ummah,” nos. 733 and 734, and the preceding hadith of Anas, no. 1799.

Muslim also related it (1/58) through Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, with the wording: “Two traits among people are disbelief on their part ...” and then mentioned these two.

1897 — “Ill omen lies in a dwelling, a woman, and a horse.”

Al-Bukhārī related it (6/46 and 9/112), as did al-Adab al-Mufrad (132), Muslim (7/33–34), Mālik (3/140), Abū Dāwūd (2/159), al-Nasāʾī (2/120), al-Tirmidhī (2/135), who authenticated it, Ibn Mājah (1/615), al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/381), al-Ṭayālisī (no. 1821), and Aḥmad (2/8, 115, 126, and 136), from al-Zuhrī, who reported that Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh and Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated it to him—from their father, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Ibn Mājah and al-Ṭayālisī do not mention Ḥamzah. Some of them said: “Ill omen is only [in these].”

It has also been narrated with the addition at its beginning, “There is no contagion”; see it. It has likewise been narrated in a different wording that conveys this same meaning, namely: