This site[0] claims that the use of Alhamdulillah after sneezing goes back to, among others, a Hadith tradition that Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning.

This site[0] claims that the use of Alhamdulillah after sneezing goes back to, among others, a Hadith tradition that Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning. So, rather different from the Christian use of “bless you”, and I think that a lot of people outside Islam would still agree with the “oddly enough”. I’m surprised that you hear inshallah less nowadays. It would be interesting to get some hard data on that. Inshallah is the one phrase that has never left even my Arab acquaintances who are proudly atheist. [0] https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-hamdu-lillah-after-they-sneeze https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2750/why-do-muslims-say-al-h...