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Mishkat al-Masabih

Book 22Hadith Number 4432
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Abu Huraira told that God’s messenger said, “The influence of the evil eye is true,” and forbade tattooing. (It would seem from this tradition that tattooing was used as a protection agains; the evil eye.) Bukhari transmitted it.

Source: sunnah.com

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Arabic

وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْعَيْنُ حَقٌّ» وَنَهَى عَن الوشم. رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ

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