"Four things in my community are from the practices of the pre-Islamic era that they will not abandon: boasting about lineage, defaming ancestry, seeking rain through stars, and wailing." It was recorded by Muslim (3/45) and Aḥmad (5/342, 343, 344) from Yaḥyá ibn Abī Kathīr that Zayd narrated to him that Abū Salām narrated to him that Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī narrated it to him as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Al-Ḥākim reviewed it (1/383) and said: "Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, although Muslim recorded it in a concise form." This is what he said, and it is with him in this wording except that he said at the beginning: "Indeed, in my community are four things from the practices of the pre-Islamic era that they will not abandon: boasting..." the ḥadīth. There is a corroborating narration with the wording: "Four things in my community are from the practices of the pre-Islamic era that people will not abandon: wailing, defaming lineage, contagion: a camel becomes diseased and a hundred camels become diseased, who made the first camel diseased?! and the stars: we were given rain by such and such a star."

"Four things in my community are from the practices of the pre-Islamic era that people will not abandon: wailing, defaming lineage, contagion: a camel becomes diseased and a hundred camels become diseased, who made the first camel diseased?! and the stars: we were given rain by such and such a star." It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1/186 Būlāq edition), al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/378), al-Ṭayālisī (number 2395), and Aḥmad (2/291, 414, 415, 455, 526, 531) from ʿAlqamah ibn Marthad from Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Madanī from Abū Hurayrah. Al-Tirmidhī said: "A good ḥadīth." And Abū al-Rabīʿ seems to be unknown, and Abū Ḥātim said: "His ḥadīth is sound," and in "al-Taqrīb," he is considered acceptable. Al-Bazzār narrated it with the wording: