When you are reading bad signs into things
Four superstitions named and rejected in a single sentence.
لاَ عَدْوَى وَلاَ طِيَرَةَ وَلاَ هَامَةَ وَلاَ صَفَرَ، وَفِرَّ مِنَ الْمَجْذُومِ كَمَا تَفِرُّ مِنَ الأَسَدِ
There is no contagion, no evil omen, no hāmah and no ṣafar.
He was asked about camels that catch mange from one another. He did not deny the mechanism. He denied that anything acts independently of Allah.
The full narration
Narrated Abu Huraira:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "(There is) no 'Adwa (no contagious disease is conveyed without Allah's permission). nor is there any bad omen (from birds), nor is there any Hamah, nor is there any bad omen in the month of Safar, and one should run away from the leper as one runs away from a lion." Note: The majority of scholars interpret this to mean that these things in and of themselves do not transmit or cause harm through supernatural or hidden means but that Allah is ultimately in control and any fearful superstition around these is false
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · 5707
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)