I said: This is an authentic isnād, its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of Muslim, except for Dukhayn, who is Ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḥajari Abū Laylā al-Miṣrī. He was deemed trustworthy by Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān and Ibn Ḥibbān, and al-Ḥākim authenticated it (4/384). It was also recorded (4/219) through another chain from Yazīd ibn Abī Manṣūr. There is another chain for the ḥadīth, narrated by Musharriḥ ibn Hāʿān from him, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: "Whoever hangs a talisman, may Allāh not fulfill it for him, and whoever hangs a shell, may Allāh not grant him peace." However, its isnād to Musharriḥ is weak due to an unknown narrator, and therefore I included it in the other book (1266). (Benefit) The talisman: beads that the Arabs used to hang on their children to protect them from the evil eye, according to their claim, but Islam invalidated it as mentioned in "al-Nihāyah" by Ibn al-Athīr. I said: This delusion is still widespread among the Bedouins, farmers, and some city dwellers, similar to the beads that some drivers place in front of them in the car, hanging them on the mirror! Some of them hang a shoe at the front or back of the car! Others hang a horse's shoe on the front of the house or shop! All of this is to ward off the evil eye, they claim, and other such practices have become widespread due to ignorance of tawḥīd, and what contradicts it from acts of shirk and paganism, which the messengers were sent and the books were revealed only to invalidate and eradicate. To Allāh is the complaint regarding the ignorance of Muslims today and their distance from religion. Some have not stopped at mere opposition, but have even sought to draw closer to Allāh through it! Thus, Shaykh al-Jazūlī, the author of "Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt," says in the seventh section on Sunday (p. 111, Būlāq edition): "O Allāh, bless Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad, as long as the doves coo and the heat..