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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible to go to a fortune-teller who informs about thefts and their locations?

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Question:
I ask Allah to do you good. This is another questioner who says: Is going to such people who inform about thefts and where they are located considered disbelief, meaning like going to sorcerers?

Answer:
This is in the hadith
God’s messenger as saying: “If anyone resorts to a kahin and believes him m what he saysالرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم من أتى كاهنا فصدقه بما يقول فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد.
Mishkat al-Masabih 4599
about the one who goes to the fortune-tellers and asks them about theft, about lost things, and about. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
(peace and blessings be upon him) said: disbelieved in whatصلى الله عليه وسلم كفر بما
Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 2:194
was revealed to Muhammadأنزل على محمد
If he believes them, and if he does not believe them, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days because of his going to them. When the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the fortune-tellers, he said: Do not go to them. It is not permissible for a person to go to the fortune-tellers. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [394 -858] الكاهن الذي يخبر عن السرقات ومكانها هل يجوز الذهاب إليه؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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