Whoever goes to a soothsayer and asks him about something and believes him, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights
Some of the Prophet's wives reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"Whoever goes to a soothsayer and asks him about something and believes him, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights."
«مَنْ أَتَى عَرَّافًا فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةٌ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً».
The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) warns us against going to soothsayers - a general term also applying to fortune tellers, astrologers, geomancers, and others who use certain things as means for knowing the unseen - and says that if a person merely asks a soothsayer about anything of the unseen, Allah will deny him the reward for his prayers for forty days, as a punishment for this great sin and misdeed.
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It is prohibited to go to fortune tellers and ask them about matters related to the unseen.
One may be deprived of the reward for an act of piety as a punishment for the commission of a sin.
This Hadīth also applies to horoscopes, palmistry, and coffee reading, even if only for merely getting information, for all this falls under divination and the claim of knowing the unseen.
If this is the punishment for one who goes to a soothsayer, then what about the punishment for the soothsayer himself?
The prayers of the forty days are valid and should not be offered again, but there is no reward for those prayers.
Sahīh Muslim (4/ 1751) (2230).
Musnad Ahmad (27/ 197) (16638).
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الجديد في شرح كتاب التوحيد.
للقرعاوي (ص238).
الملخص في شرح كتاب التوحيد.
للفوزان (ص213).
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- الصلاة التي علمها النبي ﷺ الصحابة رضي الله عنهمالصلاة التي علمها النبي ﷺ الصحابة رضي الله عنهم«مَنْ أَتَى عَرَّافًا فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ، لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةٌ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً»[410].
- عقيدة الأئمة الأربعة«مَنْ أَتَى عَرَّافًا فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ، لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةٌ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً»
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- قاموس الكبائر«مَنْ أَتَى عَرَّافًا فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ لَمْ تُقْبَلْ لَهُ صَلَاةٌ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً» [146].
- محرمات استهان بها كثير من الناسمن أتى عرافا فسأله عن شئ لم تقبل له صلاة أربعين ليلة