Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

How to reconcile the hadith "Whoever visits a fortune-teller has committed disbelief" with the hadith "Whoever visits a fortune-teller and asks him a question and believes him has committed disbelief"?

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: How do you reconcile what is reported in the hadith
Muslim: "Whoever visits a fortune-teller has committed disbelief,"مسلم من أتى كاهنا فقد كفر،
This

Answer:
The first one is in Sahih Muslim: "Whoever visits a fortune-teller, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days." This is merely the act of visiting, without believing him. But if he believes him, then the second hadith applies to him:
then he has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad.فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 135Hasan (Darussalam)
.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [252 -939] كيف الجمع بين حديث "من أتى كاهنا فقد كفر" وحديث "من أتى كاهنا فسأله فصدقه، فقد كفر"؟ — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa