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114. PROHIBITION OF ṬIYARAH 506 (TAKING PORTENTS).

It was narrated from fiAbdullāh bin fiAmr  who said: “The
Messenger of Allāh  said: ‘Whoever abandons ‘his’ intention

because of ṭiyarah, then ‘he’ has committed shirk’. The Ṣaḥābat
asked: ‘Then, what nullifies it?’ He answered: ‘Let ‘him’ say:

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. كﺮـﻴﻏ ﻪ ﻟإ ﻻو كﺮـﻴﻃ ﻻإ ﺮـﻴﻃ ﻻو كﺮـﻴﺧ ﻻإ ﺮـﻴﺧ ﻻ ﻢﻬّ ٰ - ﻠﻟا ٢٢٥
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“O Allāh, there is no goodness except goodness from You, there is
no bird (that becomes an object of ṭiyarah) except of Your creation
and there is no one who has the right ot be worshipped except
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You”.

Taṭayyur is included amongst those customs or traditions of
Ignorance. They are usually based upon birds; if they see a bird
flying to the right, they are happy and continue with their intentions.
I that bird flies to the left, they are of the opinion that it is unlucky

and they postpone their intentions. Moreover, some of them

deliberately put birds into flight in order to predict fate.

506 Ṭiyarah or taṭayyur is an assumption considered to be unlucky because of having seen or heard
something. At its essence, taṭayyur is an unlucky or lucky assumption because of sighting a specific
bird, or seeing a deer. Ignorant groups sometimes postponed their inetntions because of having seen
such objects. Later on, the sharifiāh forbade and declared such to be ḥarām.
507 A ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth narrated by Aḥmad (II/220), and pronounced ṣaḥīḥ by Shaikh Aḥmad Shakir within
his tafilīq (comment) of Musnad Aḥmad no. 7045, and pronounced ṣaḥīḥ also by Shaikh Muḥammad
Nāṣirud-Dīn al √Albānī within Silsilah al Aḥādīth aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah (1065).
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