Hadith 55

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Note: And it is reported by Al-Hafiz Bin Asakir and said, ‘It is very strange, and it’s chain is weak’. And it is reported by Ibn Aday, in his (book) ‘Kamil’ in a translation of Maymoun Bin Musa, ‘From Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws having complained to Rasool-Allah-saww of the loneliness. He-saww said to him-asws: ‘Take a pair of pigeons. They will comfort you-asws and awaken you-asws for the Salat with its provisions, and keep a rooster, it will comfort you and awaken you for the Salat’’. [77] (From a non-Shia source)
And it is reported as well in a translation of Muhammad Bin Ziyad Al Tahhan, from Maymoun Bin Mihran, from Ibn Abbas who said, ‘Keep the clipped pigeons in your houses, for these would distract the Jinn away from your children’’. [78] (From a non-Shia source)
And Ubada Bin Al Samit said, ‘A man complained to Rasool-Allah-saww of the loneliness. The Prophet-saww said to him: ‘Keep a pair of pigeons’’. [79] (From a non-Shia source)
And in (the book) ‘Kamil’ of Ibn Aday, in a translation of Sahl Bin Wazeer, from Muhammad Bin Al Munkadir, from Jabir, ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘The Kaaba complained to Allah-azwj the Exalted of the scarcity of its visitors. Allah-azwj the Exalted Revealed to it: “I-azwj shall Send a people who will be yearning to it like what the pigeon years to its chicks’’. [80] (From a non-Shia source)
And in (the book) ‘Sunan’ of Abu Dawood, and Al Nasaie, from a Hadeeth of Ibn Abbas by a good chain, ‘The Prophet-saww said: ‘A people will come into being at the end of times dyeing with the black like the carrier pigeons. They will not be smelling the aroma of Paradise’’. [81] (From a non-Shia source)