Response to Sneezing

Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 4|Chapter 15
Al-Kāfi

Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 15

Response to Sneezing

5ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الرِّضَا (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ التَّثَاؤُبُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ وَالْعَطْسَةُ مِنَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.
5. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr who has said the following: “Once I heard al-Rida عليه السلام saying, ‘Yawning is from Satan and sneezing is from Allah.”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/554)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 166