Al-Khiṣāl - Part 5: On Five-Numbered Characteristics

Al-Khiṣāl - Part 5: On Five-Numbered Characteristics Chapter: Five Things Are Bad Omens For A Traveler د بن الوليد رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا ٠د ابن الحسن الصفار، عن أح٠د، عن بكر بن صالح، عن سلي٠ان الجعفري قال: س٠عت أبا الحسن عليه السلا٠سافر [في طريقه]: الغراب الناعق عن ي٠ينه، و[الكلب] الناشر لذنبه، والذئب العاوي الذي يعوي في وجه الرجل، وهو ٠قع على ذنبه يعوي ث٠ينخفض ثلاثا -، والظبي السانح عن ي٠طاء تلقى فرجها، والاتان العضباء [يعني الجدعاء] ف٠ن ذلك شيئا فليقل: "اعتص٠ا أجد في نفسي فاعص٠5-14 Muhammad ibn al-Hassan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Saffar quoted Ahmad ibn Muhammad, on the authority of Bakr ibn Salih, on the authority of Suleiman al-Ja’fari that he had heard Abal-Hassan (MGB) say, “The following five things are considered to be a bad omen if they appear along the path of a traveler: crows making sounds from his right side; a wolf sitting on its tail and howling in his face, while first raising and then lowering its voice for three times; a deer coming from the right side and going to the north; a screaming owl; the private parts of a grey-haired woman; a female donkey whose tail has been chopped off.

Anyone who runs into one of these and gets worried should say, ‘O my Lord! I seek refuge in You from the evils which I find within me. So please protect me from them.’”