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Is it correct for the common people to say “an unlucky woman” or “an unlucky car” by citing the hadith “Misfortune is only in three things”?

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Question:
May Allah keep you safe, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: In the book of Tawhid, in the chapter on what has come regarding taking omens, there is the hadith
Misfortune is only in three things: in a woman, a horse,إنما الشؤم في ثلاث في المرأة والفرس
As-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Nasa'i 63:375
and hair. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said, “And Allah is the Creator of good and evil, of luck and misfortune,” and so on. So what is misfortune, and what is the intended meaning of the term? Does the common people’s saying “an unlucky woman” or “an unlucky car” agree with the meaning of the hadith?

Answer:
Yes, it is taking omens. There is no shirk (associating partners with Allah) as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said. If it is without a cause, if it is without a cause, it is forbidden.
Because they take omens in things that have no evil and no effect. They take omens in some birds, they take omens in some animals, they take omens when they see a one-eyed person. This does not increase this evil, because these creatures do not have evil in them, nor are they a cause of evil. But if this place is known, if this house is known for the fact that if someone stays in it or dies, or if this woman is known for the fact that whoever marries her dies, then these are specific creations of Allah in which there is evil. Allah creates what He wills; He creates many specific things. If it is known about these houses that whoever mixes with them will be cut off, then it ends, because this is from the warnings. Warnings are better than knowledge. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade entering a town that has a plague and leaving it, in order to contain the disease in its place. This is from the causes and from prevention. So if you know about this town that evil has entered it, and that whoever approaches it will be affected, then the prudent person avoids it. Allah the Exalted says:
do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands intoوَلَا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى
[Al-Baqarah 2:195]
the easy.
But if nothing is attributed to it, it is not permissible to believe in it, to consider that... and this is what the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) were upon. They believed in blessed things and good things. Even the messengers were taken as omens. The messengers in whom Allah placed blessing were taken as omens. They took omens in Musa (Moses), and they took omens in those with him, and they took omens in Khalid (peace be upon him), and they took omens in Khalid (peace and blessings be upon him). They make the source of good the source of evil. This is in their direction. This is the condemned taking of omens, which is from shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يصح قول العامة «امرأة نحس»، أو «سيارة منحوسة» استدلالًا بحديث «إنما الشؤم في ثلاث»؟ — youtube.com

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