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Taweez - Evil Eye Incantation
♣ Holy Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said,
If any of you gets a nightmare, let him say: I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah against His wrath and His punishment and the’ mischief of His slaves and from the temptations of the devils and that which they bring, Then they will not harm him.” So, Abdullah ibn Amr used to teach this supplication to his grown up children. And, he wrote it down on something and hung it on the neck of those who had not attained puberty. [
Abu Dawud 3893, Tirmidhi 3539
♣ Amr ibn Shu'aib (RadhiAllahu Anhu) said that 'Rasulu'llah (ﷺ) taught my father and grandfather a du'a which we would read before going to sleep, to protect us from fear and anguish. We told our elder children to recite this du'a before going to sleep as well. But for those children who were not yet literate, we would write it and then put it around their necks"
Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal vol.2; Abu Dawud, in 'Chapter of Medicine'; Tafsir Ibn Kathir, under Sura al-Mu'minun, verse 97; and Qadi Shawkani, Fath al-Qadir, under the same verse
♣ Hazrath Aisha (RadhiAllahu Anha) Said,
"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ ) commanded me – or commanded someone – to use an incantation against the Evil Eye."
Sahih al Bukhari 5738. Eng.Trans - Volume 7, Book 71, Number 634
♣ Narrated Hazrath Umm Salama (RadhiAllahu Anha):
"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ ) saw a slave girl in her house with a some reddish blackness in her face. He said, 'Do an incantation for her. She is suffering from the evil eye."
Sahih al Bukhari 5739. Eng.Trans - Volume 7, Book 71, Number 635
♣ Narrated Hazrath Abu Hurayra (RadhiAllahu Anhu):
The Holy Prophet (ﷺ ) said, "The evil eye is real." and He prohibited tattooing.
Sahih Bukhari 5740. Eng.Trans - Volume 7, Book 71, Number 636
♣ Narrated Hazrath al-Aswad (RadhiAllahu Anhu):
"I asked 'A'isha about the incantation for a sting*. The Prophet (ﷺ) allowed the treatment of poisonous sting with incantation" [* a snake-bite or a scorpion sting etc.]
Sahih Bukhari 5741. Eng.Trans - Volume 7, Book 71, Number 637