Hiding an uninitialized tooltip/popover no longer initializes it; fixes #15874

js/tests/unit/tooltip.js

@@ -1168,4 +1168,16 @@ $(function () {
     }, new Error('`selector` option must be specified when initializing tooltip on the window.document object!'))
   })
 
+  QUnit.test('should do nothing when an attempt is made to hide an uninitialized tooltip', function (assert) {
+    assert.expect(1)
+
+    var $tooltip = $('<span data-toggle="tooltip" title="some tip">some text</span>')
+      .appendTo('#qunit-fixture')
+      .on('hidden.bs.tooltip shown.bs.tooltip', function () {
+        assert.ok(false, 'should not fire any tooltip events')
+      })
+      .bootstrapTooltip('hide')
+    assert.strictEqual($tooltip.data('bs.tooltip'), undefined, 'should not initialize the tooltip')
+  })
+
 })