(18) باب مَا جَاءَ فِي الرُّقَى
'Awf b. Malik said :
In the pre-Islamic period we used to apply spells and we asked: Messenger of Allah ! how do you look upon it ? He replied : Submit your spells to me. There is no harm in spells so long as they involve no polytheism. (ES)
Reference (ES): Sunan Abi Dawud 3886 (ES)
In-book reference (ES): Book 29, Hadith 32 (ES)
English translation (ES): Book 28, Hadith 3877 (ES)