Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

when the state of fear disappears, they ask each other: “What has your Lord
ordered? They say that {He has said that which is true and just, and He is the Most
High, the Most Great.}” [Surah Saba’ (34):23]. Then the stealthy listeners (devils) hear
this order, and these stealthy listeners are like this, one over the other.❞ (Sufyaan, a
sub-narrator demonstrated by spreading the fingers of his right hand and placed them
one over the other horizontally.) ❝A stealthy listener hears a word which he will
convey to that which is below him and the second will convey it to that which is
below him until the last of them will convey it to the wizard or foreteller. Sometimes
a flame (fire) may strike the devil before he can convey it, and sometimes he may
convey it before the flame (fire) strikes him, whereupon the wizard adds to that word
a hundred lies. The people will then say: ‘Didn’t he (i.e. magician) tell such-and-such a
thing on such-and-such date?’ So that magician is said to have told the truth because
of the Statement which has been heard from the heavens.❞ 153
Narrated `Aaishah ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنها ‏:رضي Some people asked Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ about the
soothsayers. Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ said to them: ❝They are nothing (i.e. they are
liars).❞ The people said: “O Allaah’s Messenger ‏!ﷺ Sometimes they tell something
which comes out to be true.” Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ said: ❝That word which comes
to be true is what a Jinn snatches away by stealing and then pours it in the ear of his
foreteller with a sound similar to the cackle of a hen, and then they (foretellers) add
to it one-hundred lies.❞ 154
[End of Shaikh al-Albaanee’s addendum]
153 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (4701, 4800, 7481)
154 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (5762, 6213, 7561) and Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim (2228-122, 123)
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