The soothsayers
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al-kuhhān · al-kāhinūn · soothsayer · soothsayers · the kāhin · the soothsayers · الكاهنين · المدعين علم الغيب
spoken of as
1 expressionSoothsayers1 mention
Cyropaedia (Greek)
for I would not have you at the mercy of the soothsayers, in case they should wish to deceive you by saying other things than those revealed by the gods;
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The soothsayers, said to work through a jinn follower, and denied validity by al-Māwardī.
(If it be said) that if the calls of the jinn are among the proofs of prophethood, it would be permissible for them to be a proof of the soundness of soothsaying — there are two answers to that.
the kāhin is the one who undertakes to report about what shall be in time to come, and who claims the knowledge of secrets.
As for the soothsayers (2), they are such as Ḥārithah b.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The kāhins, diviners claiming knowledge of the unseen, belief in whose claims the creed classes with astrology as unbelief.
and belief in the efficacy of the planets and the stars, and the crediting of the soothsayers who claim knowledge of the unseen in their errors, is unbelief.
Cyropaedia
Interpreters of divine signs whom Cambyses says Cyrus must not depend upon blindly.
for I would not have you at the mercy of the soothsayers, in case they should wish to deceive you by saying other things than those revealed by the gods;