Ma'qil b. Yasar reported God’s messenger as saying:“Cupping on Tuesday the 17th of the month is a cure for a year’s illness.”Harb b. Isma'il al-Kirmani, Ahmad’s companion, transmitted it, but his isnad is worthless. Thus it is stated in al-Muntaqa.

Razin transmitted something to the same effect on the authority of Abu Huraira.

Abu Huraira told of hearing God's messenger say,“There should be no taking of omens, but the best type is the good omen." He was asked what a good omen was and replied,“A good word which one of you hears." (Bukhari and Muslim.)

He reported God's messenger as saying,“There is no infection, no evil omen, no hama*, and no serpent in a hungry belly*; but flee from one who has tubercular leprosy as you would from a lion." Bukhari transmitted it. * The word means an owl, or a night-bird which frequents graves. The pre-Islamic Arabs believed that when vengeance had not been taken for one who had been killed a bird called hama came forth from the dead and screeched demanding vengeance. ** The word is safar. The pre-Islaraic Arabs used the word as meaning a serpent which bites a man from within when he is hungry and causes the sense of stinging a man feels when hungry. It was also used of a serpent within the belly which was believed to cause a disease more contagious than mange or scab.

He reported God's messenger as saying,“There is no infection, no hama, and no serpent in a hungry belly." A nomadic Arab asked,“Messenger of God, how is it that when camels are in the sand as if they were gazelles* and a mangy camel comes among them it gives them mange?" God’s messenger replied,“Who infected the first one?" Bukhari transmitted it. * The comparison is used to indicate the clearness of their skin.

He reported God’s messenger as saying:“There is no infection, no hama, no star promising rain, and no serpent in a hungry belly." Muslim transmitted it.

Jabir told that he heard the Prophet say:“There is no infection, no serpent in a hungry belly, and no ghoul.”* Muslim transmitted it. * I have used the English word derived from the Arabic ghul. It was used of a creature which was a type of jinni or devil which was believed to appear to people in various forms and lead them astray in the desert and cause their destruction.

‘Amr b. ash-Sharid told on his father’s authority that there was a man with tubercular leprosy in the deputation of Thaqif and the Prophet sent to him a message:"We have taken your oath of allegiance, so go home." Muslim transmitted it.

Ibn ‘Abbas told that God’s messenger took good omens but not evil ones, and that he liked a pleasing name. It is transmitted in Sharh as-sunna.

Qatan b. Qabisa told on his father’s authority that the Prophet said:"Augury from the flight of birds, the practice of pessomancy,* and taking evil omens pertain to divination."** Abu Dawud transmitted it. * Tarq. It is used of the practice of divinantion in which women threw stones. It is also used of geomancy by drawing lines. ** Min al-jibt. Jibt means devil and also divination. An alternative translation would be that these practices come from the devil.