Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Contagion and bad omens have no reality, but I like optimism."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "There is no reality to contagion." He also stated that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A sick person should not come to a healthy person."

Abu Salamah says: Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to narrate both these traditions to us from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). After that, Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) stopped narrating that there is no reality to the contagiousness of disease, but he continued to narrate that a sick person should not be brought to a healthy person. A person named Harith, who was a cousin of Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him), said: O Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him)! Previously, I used to hear you narrate another hadith along with this one, but now you do not narrate what you used to narrate before. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no reality to the contagiousness of disease." So Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) refused to acknowledge this and only said: that a sick person should not be brought to a healthy person. The narrator named Abu Salamah says: By my life, Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to narrate this hadith to us that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no reality to the contagiousness of disease." Now I do not know whether Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) forgot this or whether one statement abrogated the other.

(Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) There is no contradiction between these two narrations, nor does one abrogate the other. However, the statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "There is no reality to the contagiousness of disease" is a Sunnah that will be generally acted upon. The statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "A sick person should not be brought to a healthy person," by this, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) meant that one should not hold the belief that, by acting upon the contagiousness of disease, you knowingly harm your brother, even though the contagiousness of disease does not cause harm.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "There is no reality in contagion, Safar, and Haamah." A Bedouin asked: "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! What about the camels? They roam in the desert like deer, then a mangy camel comes and joins them, and it makes them all mangy." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: "Who caused the first one to have mange?"

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "There is no reality in tiyarah (superstitious omen), haamah (the belief in the owl as a bad omen), contagiousness, or Safar." A man asked, "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! We take a scab-ridden goat and leave it among the herd, and then the other goats also become scab-ridden." The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Who afflicted the first one with scabies?"

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates this statement of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "There is no reality in contagion or bad omens. One camel becomes afflicted with mange, and it infects a hundred other camels with mange, but who afflicted the first one with mange?"

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: A Bedouin came to the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! Disease appears on the thick skin of a camel (the narrator is in doubt, or perhaps) on the lower back bone before the onset of mange. (The narrator is in doubt, perhaps these are the words) then all the camels become afflicted with mange. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Who afflicted the first one with disease? Its life, its calamity, and its sustenance (are in the power of Allah Almighty).

(Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) The word used in the text of the narration "its calamity" is not correct; rather, the original word is "its death," however, the narration has been transmitted as "its calamity." This point has been mentioned by the Shaykh.

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) took the hand of a leper, put it with his own in a bowl, and said, "Eat in the name of Allah, with faith in Allah the Exalted, and relying upon Him."

(Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) The narrator named Mufaddal bin Fadalah is the brother of Mubarak bin Fadalah; he is not Mufaddal bin Fadalah Qutbani. Both narrators are trustworthy.

Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) liked good omens and disliked bad omens.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Taking bad omens is shirk. Every one of us is affected by omens, however, Allah Almighty removes it through reliance (tawakkul) upon Him."

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no reality in superstition; its burden will be upon the one who practices it. If (misfortune) were to exist in anything, it would be in a house, a horse, or a woman."