A number of our companions...

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from one of his men, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘You must not (derive) omens (prophecies) from the Quran ( Fa’al )’.

From him, from Bakr Bin Salih, from Suleyman Al-Ja’fary, who has narrated: Abu Al-Hassan Musa -asws having said, ‘The evil, for the traveller in his road, are five things – The cawing crow on his right and spreading its tail; and the howling wolf which howls on the face of the man while sitting on it’s tail and raises its voice and lowers it three times; and the deer which crossing from the right to the left, and the crying owl, and an old woman coming in from the front, and confronting a female (astray) donkey.

So the one who feels anything from these for himself, so he should immediately say, ‘I adhere to You -azwj , O Lord -azwj , from the evil of what I find in (front of) myself’. He -asws said; ‘He would be protected from that’.

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ayoub Bin Nuh, or one of his companions, from Ayoub, from Safwan Bin Yahya who said, ‘One of our companions narrated to me saying, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘When four (things) become prevalent, four (things) would appear.