Ahadith

Umm Atiyyah Nusaibah relates: The Holy Prophet made us" promise as part of the covenant that we would not bewail the dead (Bokhari and Muslim).

Nu‘man ibn Bashir relates that when Abdullah ibn Rawahal became unconscious in his illness his sister started bewailing him: O thou mountain among men, and such and such! He recovered consciousness and said: Whatever you said I was asked: Are you like this (Bokhari)?

This hadith is the same as No. 929.

Abu Malik Ash‘ari relates that the Holy Prophet said: If a woman who is given to bewailing does not repent before her death, she will be raised on the Day of Judgment wearing a coat of pitch and a scart of rust (Muslim).

Usaid ibn Abi Usaid relates that a woman who had made the covenant at the hands of the Holy Prophet said: Among the matters in respect of which the Holy Prophet took from us a promise that we would not disobey him were the pinching of our faces, bewailing, tearing our garments and unloosening our hair (Abu Daud).

Abu Musa relates that the Holy Prophet said: When a person dies and a mourner bewails him saying: O mountain among men, O chieftain, and such like, Allah appoints two angels who pommel him with their fists and ask: Were you like this (Tirmidhi)?

This hadith is the same as No. 1583.

Ayesha relates: Some people asked the Holy Prophet about soothsayers. He said: They do not amount to anything. He was told: Messenger of Allah, they sometimés make predictions which come true. Upon this the Holy Prophet said: That is something true which Satan hears by chance from the angels and which he whispers into the ears of his friends and they mix a hundred falsehoolds with it (Bokhari and Muslim). Bokhari's version is: Ayesha relates that she heard the Holy Prophet say: The angels descend into the atmosphere talking of something that has been decreed in heaven and Satan stealthily hears part of it and communicates it to the soothsayers and they mix a hundred falsehoods with it from themselves.

Safiyyah bint Abu Ubaid relates on the authority of some of the wives of the Holy Prophet that he said: He who goes to one who claims to tell him where he will find his lost property and affirms the righteousness of such a pretender will lose the benefit of his Prayers during forty days (Muslim).

Qubaisah ibn Mukhariq relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: Oracles and drawing lines and observing the direction of the flight of birds to deduce omens from them are all satanic practices (Abu Daud).