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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
suyuti:27984a –
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السيوطي:٢٧٩٨٤a –

"يُشَمَّتُ الْعَاطِسُ ثَلَاثًا، فَمَا زَادَ فَهُوَ مَزْكومٌ".

[هـ] ابن ماجة عن سلمة بن الأكوع

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abudawud:5034 – Musaddad > Yaḥyá > Ibn ʿAjlān > Saʿīd b. Abū Saʿīd > Abū Hurayrah

Respond three times to your brother when he sneezes, and if he sneezes more often, he has a cold in his head.

أبو داود:٥٠٣٤ – حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

شَمِّتْ أَخَاكَ ثَلاَثًا فَمَا زَادَ فَهُوَ زُكَامٌ

ibnmajah:3714 – ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > Wakīʿ > ʿIkrimah b. ʿAmmār > Iyās b. Salamah b. al-Akwaʿ from his father

"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'The one who sneezes may be responded to three times; if he sneezes more than that, he has a cold.'"

ابن ماجة:٣٧١٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ إِيَاسِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الأَكْوَعِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُشَمَّتُ الْعَاطِسُ ثَلاَثًا فَمَا زَادَ فَهُوَ مَزْكُومٌ