Sunan Abi Dawud 3905

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Musaddad narrated to us—the meaning is the same. They said: Yahya narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allah ibn al-Akhnas, from al-Walid ibn ʿAbd Allah, from Yusuf ibn Mahak, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Whoever acquires knowledge from astrology has acquired a branch of magic, and the more he increases in it, the more he increases in that.”