Narrated Salama bin Shabib, narrated Al-Hasan bin A'yan, narrated Ma'qil—who is Ibn 'Ubaidullah—from Al-Zuhri, who was informed by Yahya bin 'Urwa that he heard 'Urwa say: 'A'isha said: Some people asked the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, about soothsayers. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to them: "They are nothing." They said: O Messenger of Allah, but they sometimes tell us something that turns out to be true. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "That is a word from the jinn which the jinn snatches and whispers into the ear of his ally, like the cackling of a hen, and they mix into it more than a hundred lies."