Chapter on Days and Times Recommended for Travel and Days and Times Disliked for Travel

It is narrated by Sulaiman ibn Ja'far al-Ja'fari from Abu al-Hasan Imam Musa ibn Jafar Al-Kadhim عليه السلام: "Ill omen for a traveler on his journey lies in six things: A croaking crow on his right side, A dog wagging its tail, A howling wolf that howls facing the man, sitting on its tail, howling and then raising and lowering itself three times, A deer crossing from the right to the left, A screeching owl, And an old gray-haired woman exposing herself, or a mutilated she-donkey, meaning one with clipped ears. Whoever feels apprehension in themselves from any of these, let them say: 'I seek refuge with You, my Lord عز وجل, from the evil that I sense within myself; so protect me from it.' Imam عليه السلام said: 'They will then be protected from it.'"