Narrated `Aisha: Some people asked the Prophet regarding the soothsayers. He said, They are nothing. They said, O Allah's Apostle! Some of their talks come true. The Prophet said, That word which happens to be true is what a Jinn snatches away by stealth (from the Heaven) and pours it in the ears of his friend (the foreteller) with a sound like the cackling of a hen. The soothsayers then mix with that word, one hundred lies.