- IN SAHIH BUKHARI
- IN SAHIH MUSLIM
- Book 26: Salutations And Greetings
- IN RIYAD AL SALIHEEN
- Book 17: The Book of the Prohibited Actions
- Chapter 322 : Undesirability of Reviling Fever
- Chapter 361: Undesirability of departing from or coming to a Place stricken by a Epidemic
- Book 17: The Book of the Prohibited Actions
- FROM ADAB AL MUFRAD
- Book 29 Illness and visiting those who are ill
- Chapter 226. The expiation of someone who is ill
- Chapter 228: A patient is credited with the deeds that he used to do when healthy
- Chapter 229. Is it a complaint when a sick person says, “I am in pain”?
- Chapter 237. The hadith about the person who is ill and the person who visits him
- Chapter 241. What the sick person answers
- Chapter 244. Someone who dislikes for visitors to look at other things in his house
- Book 29 Illness and visiting those who are ill
IN SAHIH BUKHARI
Sahih Bukhari >
Book 70 Patients
Sahih Bukhari > Book 70 : Patients
CHAPTER 1. The saying that sickness is expiation for sins.
7:545 Narrated by Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri and Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, “No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor hurt, nor distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were the prick he receives from a thorn, but that Allah expiates some of his sins for that.”
7:547 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle said, “The example of a believer is that of a fresh tender plant; from whatever direction the wind comes, it bends it, but when the wind becomes quiet, it becomes straight again. Similarly, a believer is afflicted with calamities (but he remains patient till Allah removes his difficulties.) And an impious wicked person is like a pine tree which keeps hard and straight till Allah cuts (breaks) it down when He wishes.” (See Hadith No. 558, Vol. 9.)
7:548 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle said, “If Allah wants to do good to somebody, He afflicts him with trials.”
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CHAPTER 2. The severity of disease
7:549 Narrated by Aisha
I never saw anybody suffering so much from sickness as Allah’s Apostle.
7:550 Narrated by ‘Abdullah
I visited the Prophet during his ailments and he was suffering from a high fever. I said, “You have a high fever. Is it because you will have a double reward for it?” He said, “Yes, for no Muslim is afflicted with any harm but that Allah will remove his sins as the leaves of a tree fall down.”
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CHAPTER 3. The superiority of a person who is suffering from epilepsy.
7:555 Narrated by ‘Ata bin Abi Rabah
Ibn ‘Abbas said to me, “Shall I show you a woman of the people of Paradise?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “This black lady came to the Prophet and said, ‘I get attacks of epilepsy and my body becomes uncovered; please invoke Allah for me.’ The Prophet said (to her), ‘If you wish, be patient and you will have (enter) Paradise; and if you wish, I will invoke Allah to cure you.’ She said, ‘I will remain patient,’ and added, ‘but I become uncovered, so please invoke Allah for me that I may not become uncovered.’ So he invoked Allah for her.”
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CHAPTER 4. The superiority of a person who has lost his sight.
7:557 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “Allah said, ‘If I deprive my slave of his two beloved things (i.e., his eyes) and he remains patient, I will let him enter Paradise in compensation for them.’”
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CHAPTER 5.To visit a patient.
7:568 Narrated by Jabir
The Prophet came to visit me (while I was sick) and he was riding neither a mule, nor a horse.
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CHAPTER 6. It is permissible for a patient to say: “I am sick,” or “Oh, my head!” or “My ailment has been aggravated.” And the saying of Ayyüb (Job) , “Verily, distress has seized me, and You are the Most Merciful of all those who show mercy.” (V.21:83)
7:570 Narrated by Al-Qasim bin Muhammad
‘Aisha, (complaining of headache) said, “Oh, my head”! Allah’s Apostle said, “I wish that had happened while I was still living, for then I would ask Allah’s Forgiveness for you and invoke Allah for you.” Aisha said, “Wa thuklayah! By Allah, I think you want me to die; and If this should happen, you would spend the last part of the day sleeping with one of your wives!” The Prophet said, “Nay, I should say, ‘Oh my head!’ I felt like sending for Abu Bakr and his son, and appoint him as my successor lest some people claimed something or some others wished something, but then I said (to myself), ‘Allah would not allow it to be otherwise, and the Muslims would prevent it to be otherwise”.
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CHAPTER 7.The patient’s wish for death.
7:575 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
The Prophet said, “None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say: “O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.’ “
7:576 Narrated by Qais bin Abi Hazim
We went to pay a visit to Khabbab (who was sick) and he had been branded (cauterized) at seven places in his body. He said, “Our companions who died (during the lifetime of the Prophet) left (this world) without having their rewards reduced through enjoying the pleasures of this life, but we have got (so much) wealth that we find no way to spend It except on the construction of buildings Had the Prophet not forbidden us to wish for death, I would have wished for it.’ We visited him for the second time while he was building a wall. He said, A Muslim is rewarded (in the Hereafter) for whatever he spends except for something that he spends on building.”
7:577 Narrated by Abu Huraira
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “The good deeds of any person will not make him enter Paradise.” (i.e., None can enter Paradise through his good deeds.) They (the Prophet’s companions) said, ‘Not even you, O Allah’s Apostle?’ He said, “Not even myself, unless Allah bestows His favor and mercy on me.” So be moderate in your religious deeds and do the deeds that are within your ability: and none of you should wish for death, for if he is a good doer, he may increase his good deeds, and if he is an evil doer, he may repent to Allah.”
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CHAPTER 8. The invocation for the patient by the one who pays a visit to him.
7:579 Narrated by ‘Aisha
Whenever Allah’s Apostle paid a visit to a patient, or a patient was brought to him, he used to invoke Allah, saying, “Take away the disease, O the Lord of the people! Cure him as You are the One Who cures. There is no cure but Yours, a cure that leaves no disease.”
Sahih Bukhari >
Book 71 Medicine
Sahih Bukhari > Book 71 : Medicine
CHAPTER 1. There is no disease that Allah has sent down except that He also has sent down its treatment.
7:582 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, “There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment.”
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CHAPTER 2. There is cure in three things
7:585 Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbas
The Prophet said, “Healing is in three things: cupping, a gulp of honey or cauterization, (branding with fire) but I forbid my followers to use cauterization (branding with fire).”
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CHAPTER 3. Treatment with honey And the Statement of Allah:- “Wherein is healing for men.” (V.16:69)
7:588 Narrated by Abu Said Al-Khudri
A man came to the Prophet and said, “My brother has some abdominal trouble.” The Prophet said to him “Let him drink honey.” The man came for the second time and the Prophet said to him, ‘Let him drink honey.” He came for the third time and the Prophet said, “Let him drink honey.” He returned again and said, “I have done that ‘ The Prophet then said, “Allah has said the truth, but your brother’s abdomen has told a lie. Let him drink honey.” So he made him drink honey and he was cured.
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CHAPTER 4. (To treat with) black cumin (Nigella seeds).
7:591 Narrated by Khalid bin Sad
We went out and Ghalib bin Abjar was accompanying us. He fell ill on the way and when we arrived at Medina he was still sick. Ibn Abi ‘Atiq came to visit him and said to us, “Treat him with black cumin. Take five or seven seeds and crush them (mix the powder with oil) and drop the resulting mixture into both nostrils, for ‘Aisha has narrated to me that she heard the Prophet saying, ‘This black cumin is healing for all diseases except As-Sam.’ Aisha said, ‘What is As-Sam?’ He said, ‘Death.”
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CHAPTER 5. To sniff the Indian Qust and sea Qust (kind of incense).
7:596 Narrated by Um Qais bint Mihsan
I heard the Prophet saying, “Treat with the Indian incense, for it has healing for seven diseases; it is to be sniffed by one having throat trouble, and to be put into one side of the mouth of one suffering from pleurisy.” Once I went to Allah’s Apostle with a son of mine who would not eat any food, and the boy passed urine on him whereupon he asked for some water and sprinkled it over the place of urine.
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CHAPTER 6. To be cupped (as a treatment) for disease.
7:599 Narrated by Anas
that he was asked about the wages of the one who cups others. He said, ‘Allah’s Apostle was cupped by Abd Taiba, to whom he gave two Sa of food and interceded for him with his masters who consequently reduced what they used to charge him daily. Then the Prophet s said, “The best medicines you may treat yourselves with are cupping and sea incense.’ He added, “You should not torture your children by treating tonsillitis by pressing the tonsils or the palate with the finger, but use incense.”
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CHAPTER 7. Whoever does not treat or get treated with a Ruqya.
7:606 Narrated by Ibn ‘Abbas
Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Nations were displayed before me; one or two prophets would pass by along with a few followers. A prophet would pass by accompanied by nobody. Then a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, Who are they Are they my followers?” It was said, ‘No. It is Moses and his followers It was said to me, ‘Look at the horizon.” Behold! There was a multitude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, ‘Look there and there about the stretching sky! Behold! There was a multitude filling the horizon,’ It was said to me, ‘This is your nation out of whom seventy thousand shall enter Paradise without reckoning.’ “Then the Prophet entered his house without telling his companions who they (the 70,000) were. So the people started talking about the issue and said, “It is we who have believed in Allah and followed His Apostle; therefore those people are either ourselves or our children who are born m the Islamic era, for we were born in the Pre-lslamic Period of Ignorance.” When the Prophet heard of that, he came out and said. “Those people are those who do not treat themselves with Ruqya, nor do they believe in bad or good omen (from birds etc.) nor do they get themselves branded (Cauterized). but they put their trust (only) in their Lord ” On that ‘Ukasha bin Muhsin said. “Am I one of them, O Allah’s Apostle?’ The Prophet said, “Yes.” Then another person got up and said, “Am I one of them?” The Prophet said, ‘Ukasha has anticipated you.”
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CHAPTER 8. Leprosy.
7:608 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle said, ‘(There is) no ‘Adwa (no contagious disease is conveyed without Allah’s permission). nor is there any bad omen (from birds), nor is there any Hamah, nor is there any bad omen in the month of Safar, and one should run away from the leper as one runs away from a lion ”
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CHAPTER 9. There is no Safer (i.e., it is not a contagious disease). (Safer is a disease that afflicts the abdomen). [See Fath Al-Ban, Vol. 12, Page 279].
7:615 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle said, ‘There is no ‘Adha (no disease is conveyed from the sick to the healthy without Allah’s permission), nor Safar, nor Hama.” A bedouin stood up and said, “Then what about my camels? They are like deer on the sand, but when a mangy camel comes and mixes with them, they all get infected with mangy.” The Prophet said, “Then who conveyed the (mange) disease to the first one?”
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CHAPTER 10. Pleurisy.
7:617 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
Allah’s Apostle allowed one of the Ansar families to treat persons who have taken poison and also who are suffering from ear ailment with Ruqya. Anas added: I got myself branded cauterized) for pleurisy, when Allah’s Apostle was still alive. Abu Talha, Anas bin An-Nadr and Zaid bin Thabit witnessed that, and it was Abu Talha who branded (cauterized) me.
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CHAPTER 11. Fever is from the heat of Hell.
7:620 Narrated by Fatima bint Al-Mundhir
Whenever a lady suffering from fever was brought to Asma’ bint Abu Bakr, she used to invoke Allah for her and then sprinkle some water on her body, at the chest and say, “Allah’s Apostle used to order us to abate fever with water.”
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CHAPTER 12. What has been mentioned about the plague.
7:628 Narrated by Anas bin Malik
Allah’s Apostle said, “(Death from) plague is martyrdom for every Muslim.”
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CHAPTER 13. Ruqya for an evil eye
7:634 Narrated by ‘Aisha
The Prophet ordered me or somebody else to do Ruqya (if there was danger) from an evil eye.
7:635 Narrated by Um Salama
That the Prophet saw in her house a girl whose face had a black spot. He said. “She is under the effect of an evil eye; so treat her with a Ruqya.”
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CHAPTER 14. To treat a snakebite or a scorpion sting with a Ruqya.
7:637 Narrated by Al-Aswad
I asked ‘Aisha about treating poisonous stings (a snake-bite or a scorpion sting) with a Ruqya. She said, “The Prophet allowed the treatment of poisonous sting with Ruqya.”
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CHAPTER 15. The Ruqya of the Prophet .. (i.e., what he used to recite while doing a Ruqya).
7:642 Narrated by ‘Aisha
Allah’s Apostle used to read in his Ruqya, “In the Name of Allah” The earth of our land and the saliva of some of us cure our patient with the permission of our Lord.” with a slight shower of saliva) while treating with a Ruqya.
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CHAPTER 16. The Fa’l (good omen).
7:651 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, “There is no Tiyara and the best omen is the Fa’l,” Somebody said, “What is the Fa’l, O Allah’s Apostle?” He said, “A good word that one of you hears (and takes as a good omen).”
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CHAPTER 17. (What is said about) Foretellers.
7:654 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle gave his verdict about two ladies of the Hudhail tribe who had fought each other and one of them had hit the other with a stone. The stone hit her abdomen and as she was pregnant, the blow killed the child in her womb. They both filed their case with the Prophet and he judged that the blood money for what was in her womb. was a slave or a female slave. The guardian of the lady who was fined said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Shall I be fined for a creature that has neither drunk nor eaten, neither spoke nor cried? A case like that should be nullified.” On that the Prophet said, “This is one of the brothers of soothsayers.
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CHAPTER 18. Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic.
7:662 Narrated by Abdullah bin Umar
Two men came from the East and addressed the people who wondered at their eloquent speeches On that Allah’s Apostle said. Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic.’
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CHAPTER 19. No ‘Adwa (no contagious disease is conveyed without Allah’s Permission)
7:667 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle said, “No ‘Adha.” Abu Huraira also said: The Prophet said, “The cattle suffering from a disease should not be mixed up with healthy cattle (or said “Do not put a patient with a healthy person as a precaution.”) Abu Huraira also said: Allah’s Apostle said, “No ‘Adha.” A bedouin got up and said, “Don’t you see how camels on the sand look like deer but when a mangy camel mixes with them, they all get infected with mange?” On that the Prophet said, “Then who conveyed the (mange) disease to the first camel?”
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CHAPTER 20. The taking of poison and treating with it, or with what may be dangerous, or with an impure or polluted thing (medicine, etc.).
7:670 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Prophet said, “Whoever purposely throws himself from a mountain and kills himself, will be in the (Hell) Fire falling down into it and abiding therein perpetually forever; and whoever drinks poison and kills himself with it, he will be carrying his poison in his hand and drinking it in the (Hell) Fire wherein he will abide eternally forever; and whoever kills himself with an iron weapon, will be carrying that weapon in his hand and stabbing his abdomen with it in the (Hell) Fire wherein he will abide eternally forever.”
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CHAPTER 21. If a housefly falls in a utensil.
7:673 Narrated by Abu Huraira
Allah’s Apostle said, “If a fly falls in the vessel of any of you, let him dip all of it (into the vessel) and then throw it away, for in one of its wings there is a disease and in the other there is healing (antidote for it) i e. the treatment for that disease.”
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Sahih Muslim >
Book 26: Salutations And Greetings
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 15: Medicine and spell
Book 26: Number 5424: ‘A’isha (the wife of Allah’s Apostle) said: When Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) fell ill. Gabriel used to recite these verses.” In the name of Allah. He may cure you from all kinds of illness and safeguard you from the evil of a jealous one when he feels jealous and from the evil influence of eye.”
Book 26: Number 5425: Abu Sa’id reported that Gabriel came to AJlah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Muhammad, have you fallen ill? Thereupon he said: Yes. He (Gabriel) said:” In the name of Allah I exercise you from everything and safeguard you from every evil that may harm you and from the eye of a jealous one. Allah would cure you and I invoke the name of Allah for you.”
Book 26: Number 5426: Abu Huraira reported so many abidith from Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The influence of an evil eye is a fact.
Book 26: Number 5427: Ibn ‘Abbas reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The influence of an evil eye is a fact; if anything would precede the destiny it would be the influence of an evil eye, and when you are asked to take bath (as a cure) from the influence of an evil eye, you should take bath.
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 16: Magic and spell
Book 26: Number 5428: A’isha reported that a Jew from among the Jews of Banu Zuraiq who was called Labid b. al-A’sam cast spell upon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) with the result that he (under the influence of the spell) felt that he had been doing something whereas in fact he had not been doing that. (This state of affairs lasted) until one day or during one night Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) made supplication (to dispel its effects). He again made a supplication and he again did this and said to ‘A’isha: Do you know that Allah has told me what I had asked Him? There came to me two men and one amongst them sat near my head and the other one near my feet and he who sat near my head said to one who sat near my feet or one who sat near my feet said to one who sat near my head: What is the trouble with the man? He said: The spell has affected him. He said: Who has cast that? He (the other one) said: It was Labid b. A’sam (who has done it). He said: What is the thing by which he transmitted its effect? He said: By the comb and by the hair stuck to the comb and the spa the of the datepalm. He said: Where is tbap He replied: In the well of Dhi Arwan. She said: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent some of the persons from among his Companions there and then said: ‘A’isha. by Allah, its water was yellow like henna and its trees were like heads of the devils. She said that she asked Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as to why he did not burn that. He said: No, Allah has cured me and I do not like that I should induce people to commit any high handedness in regard (to one another), but I only commanded that it should be buried.
Book 26: Number 5429: ‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) was affected with a spell, the rest of the hadith is the same but with this variation of wording:” Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) went to the well and looked towards it and there were trees of date palm near it. I (‘A’isha) said: I asked Allah’& Messenger (may peace be upon him) to bring it out, and 1 did not say: Why did not you burn it?” And there is no mention of these words:” I commanded (to bury them and they buried.”
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 17: Poison
Book 26: Number 5430: Anas reported that a Jewess came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) with poisoned mutton and he took of that what had been brought to him (Allah’s Messenger). (When the effect of this poison were felt by him) he called for her and asked her about that, whereupon she said: I had determined to kill you. Thereupon he said: Allah will never give you the power to do it. He (the narrator) said that they (the Companion’s of the Holy Prophet) said: Should we not kill her? Thereupon he said: No. He (Anas) said: I felt (the affects of this poison) on the uvula of Allah’s Messenger.
Book 26: Number 5431: Anas b. Malik reported that a Jewess brought poisoned meat and then served it to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him)
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 18: The excellence of curing the patient with the help of incantation
Book 26: Number 5432: ‘A’isha reported: When any person amongst us fell ill, Allah’s Messenger (may peace he upon him) used to rub him with his right band and then say: O Lord of the people, grant him health, heal him, for Thou art a Greet Healer. There is no healere, but with Thy healing Power one is healed and illness is removed. She further added: When Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) fell ill, and his illness took a serious turn I took hold of hie hand to that I should do with it what he ward to do with that (i.e. I would rub his body with his sacred hand). But he withdrew his hand from my hand and then said: O Allah, pardon me and make me join the companion. ship on She said. I was gazing at him constantly whereas he had passed away.
Book 26: Number 5433: This. hadith has been reported on the authority of Shu’ba through another chain of transmitters (and the words are):” He rubbed him with his hand” and (in) the hadith transmitted on the authority of Thauri (the words are).” He used to rub with his right hand.” This hadith has been reported through another chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5434: ‘A’isha reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: When Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) visited the sick he would say: Lord of the people. remove the disease, cure him, for Thou art the great Curer, there is no cure but through Thine healing Power, which leaves nothing of the disease.
Book 26: Number 5435: ‘A’isha reported that when Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) came to visit any sick he supplicated for him and said: Lord of the people, remove the malady, cure him for Thou art a great Curer. There is no cure but through Thine healing Power which leaves no trouble, and in the narration transmitted on the authority of Abu Bakr there is a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5436: This hadith has been reported on the authority of ‘A’isha through another chain of transmitters with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5437: ‘A’isha reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) used to recite (this supplication) as the words of incantation:” Lord of the people, remove the trouble for in Thine Hand is the cure; none is there to relieve him (the burden of disease) but only Thou.
Book 26: Number 5438: This hadith has been reported on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitted.
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 19: Curing of the patient with the recitation of Mu’awwidhatan (suras cxiii., cxiv.)
Book 26: Number 5439: ‘A’isha reported that when any of the members of the household fell ill Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) used to blow over him by reciting Mu’awwidhatan, and when he suffered from illness of which he died I used to blow over him and rubbed his body with his hand for his hand had greater healing power than my hand.
Book 26: Number 5440: ‘A’isha reported that when Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) fell ill, he recited over his body Mu’awwidhatan and blew over him and when his sickness was aggravated I used to recite over him and rub him with his band with the hope that it was more blessed.
Book 26: Number 5441: This hadith has been narrated through some other chains of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording. In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Yanus and Ziyari (the words are):” When Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) fell ill, he blew over his body by reciting Mu’awwid hatan and rubbed him with his hand.
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 20: The excellence of curing (with the help of incantation) the influence of the evil eye and small pustules and the poison (especially of snake and scorpion)
Book 26: Number 5442: ‘Abd al-Rahman b. al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father: I asked ‘A’isha about incantation. She said: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had granted its sanction to the members of a family of the Ansir for incantation in curing every type of poison.
Book 26: Number 5443: ‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) granted sanction to the members of a family of the Ansir for incantation (for removing the effects) of the poison of the scorpion.
Book 26: Number 5444: ‘A’isha reported that when any person fell ill with a disease or he had any ailment or he had any injury, the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) placed his forefinger upon the ground and then lifted it by reciting the name of Allah. (and said): The dust of our ground with the saliva of any one of us would serve as a means whereby our illness would be cured with the sanction of Allab. This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Ibn Abu Shaiba and Zubair with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5445: ‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) commanded the use of incantation for curing the influence of an evil eye.
Book 26: Number 5446: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Mis’ar with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5447: ‘A’isha reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace he upon him) commanded me that I should make use of incantation for curing the influence of an evil eye.
Book 26: Number 5448: Anas b. Malik reported in connection with incantation that he had been granted sanction (to use incantation as a remedy) for the sting of the scorpion and for curing small pustules and dispelling the influence of an evil eye.
Book 26: Number 5449: Anas reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) granted him sanction to use incantation (as a cure) for the, influence of an evil eye, the sting of the scorpion and small pustules.
Book 26: Number 5450: Umm Salama, the wife of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him), reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to a small girl in the house of Umm Salama that he had been seeing on her face black stains and told her that that was due to the infiluence of an evil eye, and he asked that she should be cured with the help of incantation (hoping) that her face should become spotles.
Book 26: Number 5451: Jabir b. ‘Abdullah reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) granted sanction to the family of Hazm for incantation (in mitigating the effect of the poison of) the snake, and, he said to Asma’ daughter of ‘Umais: What is this that I see the children of my brother lean? Are they not fed properly? She said: No, but they fall under the influence of an evil eve. He said: Use incantation She recited (the words of incantation before him), whereupon he (by approving them) said: Yes, use this incantation for them.
Book 26: Number 5452: Jabir b. ‘Abdullah reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) granted a special sanction for incantation in case of the snake poison to a tribe of ‘Amr. Abu Zubair said: I heard Jabir b. ‘Abdullah as saying that the scorpion stung one of us as we were sitting with Allah’s Messenger (may peace upon him). A person said: Allah’s Messenger, I use incantation (for curing the effect. of sting), whereupon he said: He who is competent amongst you to benefit his brother should do so.
Book 26: Number 5453: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5454: Jabir b. ‘Abdullah reported I had a maternal uncle who treated the sting of the scorpion with the help of incantation. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade incantation. He came to him and said: Allah’s Messenger, you forbade to practise incantation, whereas I employ it for curing the sting of the scorpion, whereupon he said: He who amongst you is capable of employing it as a means to do good should do that.
Book 26: Number 5455: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A’mash with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5456: Jabir reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) prohibited incantation. Then the people of Amr b. Hazm came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: We know an incantation which we use for curing the sting of the scorpion but you have prohibited it. They recited (the words of incantation) before him, whereupon he said: I do not see any harm (in it), so he who amongst you is competent to do good to his brother should do that.
Book 26: Number 5457: ‘Auf b. Malik Ashja’i reported We practised incantation in the pre Islamic days and we said: Allah’s Messenger. what is your opinion about it? He said: Let me know your incantation and said: There is no harm in the incantation which does not smack of polytheism.
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Chapter 21: Permissibility of getting reward for incantations from the words of the Qur’an
Book 26: Number 5458: Abu Sa’id Khudri reported that some persons amongst the Companions of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) set out on a journey and they happened to pass by a tribe from the tribes of Arabia. They demanded hospitality from the members of that tribe, but they did not extend any hospitality to them. They said to them: Is there any incantator amongst you, at the chief of the tribe has bgen stung by a scorpion? A person amongst us said: ‘Yes. So he came to him and he practised incantation with the help of Sura al-Fatiha and the person became all right. He was given a flock of sheep (as recompense), but he refused to accept that, saying: I shall make a mention of it to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him), and if he approves of it. then I shall accept it. So we came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) and made a mention of that to him and he (that person) said: Allah’s Messenger by Allah, I did not practice incantation but with the help of Sura al-Fatiha of the Holy Book. He (the Holy Prophet) smiled and said: How did you come to know that it can be used (as incactation)? and then said: Take out of that and allocate a share for me along with your share.
Book 26: Number 5459: This hadith has been reported on the authority of Abu Bishr with the same the same chain of transmitters (with these words): That he recited Ummul Qur’an (Sura Fatiha), and he collected his spittle and he applied that and the person became all right.
Book 26: Number 5460: Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported. We landed at a place where a woman came to us and said: A scorpiorn has bitten the chief of the tribe. Is there any incantator amongst you? A person amongst us stood up (and went with her). We had no idea that he had been a good incantator but he practised incantation with the help of Sura al -Fatiha and the (the chief) was all right. They gave him a flock of sheep and served us milk. We said (to him): Are you a good incantatory Thereupon he said: I did not do it but by the help of Sura al-Fatiha. He caid: Do not drive (these goats) until we go to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and find out (whether it is permissible to accept (this reward of incantation). So we came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon hin) and made a rrention of that to him, whereupon he said: How did you come to know that this (Sura al-Fatiha) could be used as an incantation? So distribute them (amongst those who had been present there with him) and allocate a share of mine also.
Book 26: Number 5461: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters and he said: There stood up with her a person amongst us whom we did not know before as an incantator.
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Chapter 22: Excellence of placing one’s hands at the spot of pain at the time of practising incantation
Book 26: Number 5462: Uthman b. Abu al-‘As Al-Thaqafi reported that he nade a complaint of pain to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) that he felt in his body at the time he had become Muslim. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Place your hand at the place where you feel pain in your body and say Bismillah (in the name of Allah) three times and seven times A’udhu billahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa ukhdhiru (I seek refuge with Allah and with His Power from the evil that I find and that I fear).
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Chapter 23: Seeking refuge against satan from the evil promptings in the prayer
Book 26: Number 5463: Uthman b. Abu al-‘As reported that he came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah’s Messenger, the Satan intervenes between me and my prayer and my reciting of the Qur’an and he confounds me. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:, That is (the doing of the Satan) who is known as Khinzab, and when you perceive its effect, seek refuge with Allah from it and spit three times to your left. I did that and Allah dispelled that from me.
Book 26: Number 5464: ‘Uthman b. Abu al-‘As reported that he came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) and he narrated like this. In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Salam b. Nuh there is no mention of three times,
Book 26: Number 5465: This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of ‘Uthman b. Abu al-‘As with a slight variation of wording.
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Chapter 24: There is a remedy for every malady and it is excellent to get treatment
Book 26: Number 5466: Jabir reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is a remedy for every malady, and when the remedy is applied to the disease it is cured with the permission of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.
Book 26: Number 5467: Jabir reported that he visited Muqanna’ and then said: I will not go away unless you get yourself cupped, for I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) say: It is a remedy.
Book 26: Number 5468: ‘Asim b. ‘Umar b. Qatada reported: There came to our house ‘Abdullah and another person from amongst the members of the household who complained of a wound. Jabir said: What ails you? He said: There is a wound which is very painful for me, whereupon he said: Boy, bring to me a cupper. He said: ‘Abdullah, what do you intend to do with the cupper? I said: I would get this wound cupped. He said: By Allah. oven the touch of fly or cloth causes me pain (and cupping) would thus cause me (unbearable) pain. And when he saw him feeling pain (at the idea of cupping), he said: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If there is any effective remedy amongst your remedies, these are (three): Cupping, drinking of honey and cauterisation with the help of fire. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: As for myself I do not like cauterisation. The cupper was called and he cupped him and he was all right.
Book 26: Number 5469: Jabir reported that Umm Salama sought permission from Allah’s messenger (may Allah’s peace upon him) tor getting herself cupped. The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) asked Abu Taiba to cup her. He (Jabir) said: I think he (Abu Taiba) was her faster brother or a young boy before entering upon the adolescent period.
Book 26: Number 5470: Jabir reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent a phystian to Ubayy b. Ka’b. He cut the vein and then cauterised it.
Book 26: Number 5471: A’mash reported this with the same chain of transmitters and he made no mention of the fact that he cut one of his veins.
Book 26: Number 5472: Jabir b. ‘Abdillah reported that on the day of Ahzab Ubayy received the wound of an arrow in his medial arm vein. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) cauterised it.
Book 26: Number 5473: Jabir reported that Sa’d b. Mu’adh received a wound of the arrow in his vein. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) cauterised it with a rod and it was swollen, to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) did it for the second time.
Book 26: Number 5474: Ibn ‘Abbas reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) got himself cupped and gave to the cupper his wages and he put the medicine in the nostril.
Book 26: Number 5475: Anas b. Malik reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) got himself cupped and never withheld the wages of anyone.
Book 26: Number 5476: Ibn Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The fever from the vehement raging of the (heat of Hell), so cool it with the help of water.
Book 26: Number 5477: Ibn Umar reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Fever is due to vehemence of the beat of Hell, so cool it with water.
Book 26: Number 5478: Ibn Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Fever is from the vehement raging of the fire of Hell, so extinguish it with water.
Book 26: Number 5479: Ibn ‘Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Fever is from the vehement Paging of the Hell fire, so cool it with water.
Book 26: Number 5480: ‘A’isha reported Allah’s messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Fever is from the vehement raging of the Hell fire, so cool it with water.
Book 26: Number 5481: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5482: Asma’ reported that a woman running high fever was brought to her. She asked water to be brought and then sprinkled it in the opening of a shirt at the uppermost part of the chest and said that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: Cool (the fever) with water. for it is because of the vehemence of the beat of Hell.
Book 26: Number 5483: Hisham reported this hadith with the same chain of transmitters. In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Numair (the words are):” She poured water on her sides and in the opening of the shirt at the uppermost part of the chest.” There is no mention of these words:” It is from the vehemence of the heat of the Hell.” This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Usama with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5484: Rafi’ b. Khadij reported: I heard Allah’s messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The fever is due to the intense heat of the Hell, so cool it with water.
Book 26: Number 5485: Rafi’ b. Khadij reported: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The fever is due to the intense heat of Hell, so cool it down in your (bodies) with water. Abu Bakr has made no mention of the word” from you” (‘ankum), but he said that Rafi’ b. Khadij had informed him of it.
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Chapter 25: Disapproval of applying remedy by pouring the medicine in the mouth forcibly
Book 26: Number 5486: ‘A’isha reported: we (intended to pour) medicine in the mouth of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) in his illness, but he pointed out (with the gesture of his hand) that it should not be poured into the mouth against his will. We said: (It was perhaps due to the natural) aversion of the patient against medicine. When he recovered, he said: Medicine should be poured into the mouth of every one of you except Ibn ‘Abbas, for he was not present amongst you.
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Chapter 26: Treatment with the help of Indian aloes wood
Book 26: Number 5487: Umm Qais, daughter of Mihsan, the sister of ‘Ukasha b. Mihsan said: I visited Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) along with my son who had not, by that time, been weaned and he pissed over his (clothes). He ordered water to be brought and sprinkled (it) over them. She (further) said: I visited him (Allah’s Apostle) along with my son and I had squeezed the swelling in the uvula, whereupon he said: Why do you afflict your children by compressing like this? Use this Indian aloes wood, for it contains seven types of remedies, one among them being a remedy for pleurisy. It is applied through the nose for a swelling of the uvula and poured into the side of the mouth for pleurisy.
Book 26: Number 5488: Umm Qais, daughter of Mihsan, was one of the earlier female emigrants who had pledged allegiance to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him). She was the sister of Ukisha b. Mihsan, one of the posterity of Asad b. Khuzaima. She reported that she came to Allah’s messenger (may peace be upon him) along with her son who had not attained the age of weaning and she had compressed the swelling of his uvula. (Yunus said: She compressed the uvula because she was afraid that there might be swelling of uvula.) Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Why do you afflict your children by compressing in this way? You should use Indian aloeswood, for it has seven remedies in it, one of them being the remedy for pleurisy. Ubaidullah reported that she had told that that was the child who pissed in the lap of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) called for water and sprinkled it on his imrine, but he did not wash it well.
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Chapter 27: Remedy by applying Nigella
Book 26: Number 5489: Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Nigella seed is a remedy for every disease except death. This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5490: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no disease for which Nigella seed does not provide remedy.
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Chapter 28: Talbina gives comfort to the patient
Book 26: Number 5491: ‘A’isha the wife of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: When there was any bereavement in her family the women gathered there for condolence and they departed except the members of the family and some selected persons. She asked to prepare talbina in a small couldron and it was cooked and then tharid was prepared and it was poured over talbina, then she said: Eat it, for I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Talbina gives comfort to the aggrieved heart and it lessens grief.
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Chapter 29: Remedy with the help of honey
Book 26: Number 5492: Abu Sa’id Khudri reported that a person came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) and told him that his brother’s bowels were loose. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Give him honey. So he gave him that and then came and said: I gave him honey but it has only made his bowels more loose. He said this three times; and then he came the fourth time, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: Give him honey. He said: I did give him, but it has only made his bowels more loose, whereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Allah has spoken the truth and your brother’s bowels are in the wrong. So he made him drink (honey) and he was recovered. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Sa’id Khudri through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
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Chapter 30: Plague, ill omen and magic
Book 26: Number 5493: ‘Amir b. Sa’d b. Abu Waqqas reported on the authority of his father that he asked Usama b. Zaid: What have you heard from Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) about plague? Thereupon Usama said: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Plague is a calamity which was sent to Bani Isra’il or upon those who were before you. So when you hear that it has broken out in a land, don’t go to it, and when it has broken out in the land where you are, don’t run out of it. In the narration transmitted on the authority of Abu Nadr there is a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5494: Usama b. Zaid reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: Plague is the sign of a calamity with which Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, affects people from His servants. So when you hear about it, don’t enter there (where it has broken out), and when it has broken out in a land and you are there, then don’t run away from it.
Book 26: Number 5495: Usama reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Plague is a calamity which was inflicted on those who were before you, or upon Bani Isra’il. So when it has broken out in a land, don’t run out of it, and when it has spread in a land, then don’t enter it.
Book 26: Number 5496: ‘Amir b. Sa’d reported that a person asked Sa’d b. Abu Waqqas about the plague, whereupon Usama b. Zaid said: I would inform you about it. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: It is a calamity or a disease which Allah sent to a group of Bani Isra’il, or to the people who were be fore you; so when you hear of it in land, don’t enter it and when it has broken out in your land, don’t run away from it.
Book 26: Number 5497: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij through another chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5498: Usama b. Zaid reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said this: This calamity or illness was a punishment with which were punished some of the nations before you. Then it was left upon the earth. It goes away once and comes back again. He who heard of its presence in a land should not go towards it, and he who happened to be in a land where it had broken out should not fly from it.
Book 26: Number 5499: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with a different chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5500: Shu’ba reported from Habib: While we were in Medina we heard of plague having broken out in Kufa. ‘Ata b. Yasir and others said to me that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said. If you are in a land where it (this scourge) has broken out, don’t get out of it, and if you were to know that it had broken (in another land, then don’t enter it. I said to him: From whom (did you hear it)? They said: ‘Amir b. Sa’d has narrated it. So I came to him. They said that he was not present there. So I met his brother Ibrahim b. Sa’d and asked him. He said: I bear testimony to the fact that Usama narrated it to Sa’d saying: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying that it is a God sent punishment from the calamity or from the remnant of the calamity with which people were afflicted before you. So when it is in a land and you are there, don’t get out of it, and if (this news reaches you) that it has broken out in a land, then don’t enter therein. Habib said: I said to Ibrahim: Did you hear Usama narrating it to Sa’d and he was not denying it. He said: Yes.
Book 26: Number 5501: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu’ba with the same chain of transmitters except for the fact that no mention has been made of the account of ‘Ata b. Yasir as in the previous hadith.
Book 26: Number 5502: This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Sa’d b. Malik, Khuzaima b. Thabit and Usama b. Zaid.
Book 26: Number 5503: Ibrahim b. Sa’d b. Abu Waqqas reported: Usama b. Zaid and Sa’d had been sitting and they had been conversing and they said this: This hadith has been transmitted by Ibrahim b. Sa’d b. Malik on the authority of his father.
Book 26: Number 5504: ‘Abdullah b. ‘Abbas reported: Umar b. Khattab set out for Syria. As he came at Sargh (a town by the side of Hijaz on the way to Syria), there met him the commander of the forces, Abu Ubaida b. Jandb, and his companions. They informed him that a scourge had broken out in Syria. Ibn ‘Abbas further reported that ‘Umar said: Call to me tile earliest emigrants. So I called them. He (Hadrat ‘Umar) sought their advice, and they told him that the scourge had broker, out in Syria. There was a difference of opinion (whether they should proceed further or go back to their homes in such a situation). Some of them said: You (‘Umar) have set forth for a task, and, therefore, we would not advise you to go back, whereas some of them said: You have along with you the remnants (of the sacred galaxy) of men and (the blessed) Companions of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), so we would not advise you to go forth towards this calamity (with such eminent persons and thus expose them deliberately to a danger). He (Hadrat ‘Umar) said: You can now go away. He said: Call to me the Ansar. So I called them to him, and he consulted them, and they trod the same path as was trodden by the Muhajirin, and they differed in their opinions as they had differed. He said: Now, you can go. He again said: Call to me the old persons of the Quraish who had migrated before the Victory (that is the Victory of Mecca), so I called them (and Hadrat ‘Umar consulted them) and not even two persons differed (from the opinion held by the earlier delegates). They said: Our opinion is that you better go back along with the people and do not make them go to this scourge, So ‘Umar made announcement to the people: In the morning I would be on the back of my side. So they (set forth in the morning), whereupon Abu ‘Ubaida b. Jarrah said: Are you going to run away from the Divine Decree? Thereupon ‘Umar said: Had it been someone else to say this besides you! ‘Umar (in fact) did not approve of his opposing (this decision) and he said: Yes, we are running from the Divine Decree (to the) Divine Decree. You should think if there had been camels for you and you happened to get down in a valley having two sides, one of them covered with verdure and the other being barren, would you not (be doing) according to the Divine Decree if you graze them in verdure? And in case you graze them in the barren land (even then you would be grazing them) according to the Divine Decree.
There happened to come ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Auf and he had been absent in connection with some of his needs. He said: I have with me a knowledge of it, that I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If you hear of its presence (the presence of plague) in a land, don’t enter it, but if it spreads in the land where you are, don’t fly from it. Thereupon ‘Umar b. Khattab praised Allah and then went back?
Book 26: Number 5505: This hadith has been reported on the authority of Ma’mar with the same chain of transmitters but with this addition:” Do you think that he would graze in the barren land but would abandon the green land? Would you not attribute it to be a failing on his part? He said: Yes. He said: Then proceed. And he moved on until he came to Medina. And he said to me: This is the right place, or he said: That is the destination if Allah so wills.” This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of ‘Abdullah b. Harith with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5506: ‘Amir b. Rabi’ah reported: ‘Umar went to Syria and as he came to Sargh, information was given to him that an epidemic had broken out in Syria. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Auf narrated to him that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said: When you hear of its presence in a land, don’t move towards it, and when it breaks out in a land and you are therein, then don’t run away from it. So ‘Umar b. Khattab came back from Sargh. Salim b. ‘Abdullah reported that ‘Umar went back, along with people on hearing the hadith reported on the authority of ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Auf.
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Chapter 31: There is no infection, no evil omen, no hama, no safar, no star promising rain, no ghoul and the ill should not go to those who are healthy
Book 26: Number 5507: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no infection, no safar, no hama. A desert Arab said: Allah’s Messenger, how is it that when the camel is in the sand it is like a deer then a camel afflicted with scab mixes with it and it is affected by sub? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Who infected the first one?
Book 26: Number 5508: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no evil omen, no safar, no hama. A desert Arab said: Allah’s, Messenger The rest of the hadith is the same.
Book 26: Number 5509: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no trahsitive disease. Thereupon a desert Arab stood up. The rest of the hadith is the same and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Zuhri’ the Prophet (may peace be upon him) is reported to have said: There is no transitive disease, no safar, no hama.
Book 26: Number 5510: Abu Salama h. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. ‘Auf reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, but he is also reported to have said: A sick person should not be taken to one who is healthy. Abu Salama said that Abu Huraira used to narrate these two (different ahadith) from Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), but afterwards Abu Huraira became silent on these words:” There is no transitive disease,” but he stuck to this that the sick person should not be taken to one who is healthy. Harith b. Abu Dhubab (and he was the first cousin of Abu Huraira) said: Abu Huraira, I used to hear from you that you narrated to us along with this hadith and the other one also (there is no transitive disease), but now you observe silence about it. You used to say that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: There is no transitive disease. Abu Huraira denied having any knowledge of that, but he said that the sick camel should not be taken to the healthy one. Harith, however, did not agree with him, which irritated Abu Huraira and he said to him some words in the Abyssinian language. He said to Harith: Do you know what I said to you? He said: No. Abu Huraira said: I simply denied having said it. Abu Salama sad: By my life, Abu Huraira in fact used to report Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said: There is no transitive disease. I do not know whether Abu Huraira has forgotten it or he deemed it an abrogated statement in the light of the other one.
Book 26: Number 5511: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease and he also reported along with it: The ill should not be taken to the healthy.
Book 26: Number 5512: This hadith has been reported on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5513: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no huma, no star promising rain, no safar.
Book 26: Number 5514: Jabir reported Allal’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no ill omen, no ghoul.
Book 26: Number 5515: Jabir reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no ghoul, no safar.
Book 26: Number 5516: Jabir b. ‘Abdullah reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no safar, no ghoul. He (the narrator) said: I heard Abu Zubair say: Jabir explained for them the word safar. Abu Zubair said: safar means belly. It was said to Jabir: Why is it so? He said that it was held that safar implied the worms of the belly, but he gave no explanation of ghoul. Abu Zubair said: Ghoul is that which kills the travellers.
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Chapter 32: Omen, divination and that which is unlucky
Book 26: Number 5517: Abu Huraira reported: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no divination but the best type is the good omen. It was said to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him): What is good omen? Thereupon he said: A good word which one of you hears.
Book 26: Number 5518: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5519: Anas reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no divination, but good omen pleases me, i.e. the good word or a good word.
Book 26: Number 5520: Anas b. Malik reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no divination, but good omen pleases me. It was said: What is good omen? He said: Sacred words.
Book 26: Number 5521: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no divination, but I like good words.
Book 26: Number 5522: Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There is no transitive disease, no hama, no divination, but I like good omen.
Book 26: Number 5523: ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If there be bad luck, it is in the house, and the wife, and the horse.
Book 26: Number 5524: ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying. There is no transitive disease, no ill omen, and bad luck is lound in the house, or wife or horse.
Book 26: Number 5525: This hadith has been reported on the authority of Zuhri with other chains of transmitters but with slight variations of wording.
Book 26: Number 5526: ‘Umar b. Muhammad b. Zaid reported that he heard his father narrating from Ibn ‘Umar that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had said. If bad luck is a fact, then it is in the horse, the woman and the house.
Book 26: Number 5527: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu’ba with the same chain of transmitters but there is no mention of the word” Haqq”” (fact).
Book 26: Number 5528: ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar reported on the authority of his father that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: If there is bad luck in anything, it is the horse, the abode and the woman.
Book 26: Number 5529: Sahl b. Sa’d reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If bad luck were to be in anything, it is found in the woman, the horse and the abode.
Book 26: Number 5530: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sahl b. Sa’d with a difterent chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5531: Jabir reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: If bad luck were to be in anything, it is found in the land, in the servant and in the horse.
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 33: Kahanat (divination) is prohibited and it is forbidden to go to the Kahin
Book 26: Number 5532: Mu’awiya b. al-Hakam as-Sulami reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, there were things we used to do in the pre Islamic days. We used to visit Kahins, whereupon he said: Don’t visit Kahins. I said: We used to take omens. He said: That is a sort of personal whim of yours, so let it not prevent you (from doing a thing).
Book 26: Number 5533: This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Zuhri with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5534: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Mu’awiya b. Hakam as-Sulami through another chain of transmitters. The hadith transmitted on the authority of Yahya b. Abu Kathir (there is an addition of these words): I said: Among us there are men who draw lines and thus make divination. What about this? Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: There was a Prophet who drew lines, so whose lines agree with his line for him it is allowable.
Book 26: Number 5535: ‘A’isha reported: I said: Allah’s Messenger, the kahins used to tell us about things (unseen) and we found them to be true. Thereupon he said: That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn snatches and throws into the ear of his friend, and makes an addition of one hundred lies to it.
Book 26: Number 5536: ‘Urwa reported from ‘A’isha that she said that people asked Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) about the kahins. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to them: It is nothing (i. e. it is a mere superstition). They said: Allah’s Messenger, they at times narrate to us things which we find true. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn snatches away and then cackles into the ear of his friend as the hen does. And then they mix in it more than one hundred lies.
Book 26: Number 5537: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5538: ‘Abdullah. Ibn ‘Abbas reported: A person from the Ansar who was amongst the Companions of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) reported to me: As we were sitting during the night with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), a meteor shot gave a dazzling light. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: What did you say in the pre Islamic days when there was such a shot (of meteor)? They said: Allah and His Messenger know best (the actual position), but we, however, used to say that that very night a great man had been born and a great man had died, whereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: (These meteors) are shot neither at the death of anyone nor on the birth of anyone. Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, issues Command when He decides to do a thing. Then (the Angels) supporting the Throne sing His glory, then sing the dwellers of heaven who are near to them until this glory of God reaches them who are in the heaven of this world. Then those who are near the supporters of the Throne ask these supporters of the Throne: What your Lord has said? And they accordingly inform them what He says. Then the dwellers of heaven seek information from them until this information reaches the heaven of the world. In this process of transmission (the jinn snatches) what he manages to overhear and he carries it to his friends. And when the Angels see the jinn they attack them with meteors. If they narrate only which they manage to snatch that is correct but they alloy it with lies and make additions to it.
Book 26: Number 5539: The hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri through the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5540: Safiyya reported from some of the wives of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) having said: He who visits a divner (‘Arraf) and asks him about anything, his prayers extending to forty nights will not be accepted.
Sahih Muslim > Book 26 : Salutations And Greetings
Chapter 34: It is advisable to avoid mixing with the leper
Book 26: Number 5541: ‘Amr b. Sharid reported on the authority of his father that there was in the delegation of Thaqif a leper. Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) sent a message to him: We have accepted your allegiance, so you may go.
Book 26: Number 5542: ‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) commanded the killing of a snake having stripes over it, for it affects eyesight and miscarries pregnancy.
Book 26: Number 5543: This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Hisham. He said: The short tailed snake and the snake having stripes over it should be killed.
Book 26: Number 5544: Salim, on the authority of his father. reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Kill the snakes having stripes over them and short tailed snakes, for these two types cause miscarriage (of a pregnant woman) and they affect the eyesight adversely. So Ibn ‘Umar used to kill every snake that he found. Abu Lubaba b. ‘Abd al-Mundhir and Zaid b. Khattab saw him pursuing a snake, whereupon he said: They were forbidden (to kill) those snakes who live in houses.
Book 26: Number 5545: Ibn ‘Umar reported: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) commanding the killing of dogs and the killing of the striped and the short tailed snakes, for both of them affect the eyesight adversely and cause miscarriage. Zuhri said: We thought of their poison (the pernicious effects of these two). Allah, however, knows best. ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar said: I did not spare any snake. I rather killed everyone that I saw. One day as I was pursuing a snake from amongst the snakes of the house, Zaid b. Khattab or Abu Lubaba happened to pass by me and found me pursuing it. He said: ‘Abdullah, wait. I said: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) commanded (us) to kill them, whereupon he said that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade the killing of the snakes of the houses. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
Book 26: Number 5546: Nafi’ reported that Abu Lubaba talked to Ibn ‘Umar to open a door in his house which would bring them nearer to the mosque and they found a fresh slough of the snake, whereupon ‘Abdullah said: Find it out and kill it. Abu Lubaba said: Don’t kill them, for Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) forbade the killing of the snakes found in houses.
Book 26: Number 5547: Nafi’ reported that Ibn ‘Urnar used to kill all types of snakes until Abu Lubaba b. ‘Abd al-Mundhir Badri reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had forbidden the killing of the snakes of the houses, and so he abstained from it.
Book 26: Number 5548: Nafi’ reported that he heard Abu Lubaba informing Ibn ‘Umar that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had forbidden the killing of domestic snakes.
Book 26: Number 5549: ‘Abdullah reported that Abu Lubaba had informed him that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) had forbidden the killing of the snakes found in the house.
Book 26: Number 5550: Nafi’ reported that Abu Lubaba b. ‘Abd al-Mundhir al-Ansari (first) lived in Quba. He then shifted to Medina and as he was in the company of ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar opening a window for him, he suddenly saw a snake in the house. They (the inmates of the house) attempted to kill that. Thereupon Abu Lubaba said: They had been forbidden to make an attempt to kill house snakes and they had been commanded to kill the snakes having small tails, small snakes and those having streaks over them, and it was said: Both of them affect the eyes and cause miscarriage to women.
Book 26: Number 5551: Nafi’ reported on the authority of his father that as ‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar saw one day (standing) near the ruin (of his house) the slough of a snake and said (to the people around him): Pursue this snake and kill it. Abu Lubaba Ansari said: I heard Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him). He forbade the killing of snakes found in the houses except the short tailed snakes and those having streaks upon them, for both of them obliterate eyesight and affect that which is in the wombs of (pregnant) women.
Book 26: Number 5552: Nafi’ reported that Abu Lubaba happened to pass by Ibn ‘Umar who lived in the fortified place near the house of ‘Umar b. Khattab and was busy in keeping his eyes upon a snake and killing it, the rest of the hadith is the same.
Book 26: Number 5553: ‘Abdullah reported: We were with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) in a cave when there was revealed to him (the Sura al-Mursalat, i.e. Sura lxxvii.: “By those sent forth to spread goodness” ) and we had just heard (it) from his lips that there appeared before us a snake. He said: Kill it. We hastened to kill it, but it slipped away from us, thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Allah saved it from your harm just as he saved you from its evil.
Book 26: Number 5554: This hadith has been narrated on the authority of al-A’mash with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 26: Number 5555: ‘Abdullah reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) commanded a Muhrim (one who is in the state of pilgrimage) to kill the snake at Mina.
Book 26: Number 5556: ‘Abdullah reported: While we were with the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) in the cave, the rest of the hadith is the same as the one narrated above.
Book 26: Number 5557: Abu as-Sa’ib, the freed slaved of Hisham b. Zuhra, said that he visited Abu Sa’id Khudri in his house, (and he further) said: I found him saying his prayer, so I sat down waiting for him to finish his prayer when I heard a stir in the bundles (of wood) lying in a comer of the house. I looked towards it and found a snake. I jumped up in order to kill it, but he (Abu Sa’id Khudri) made a gesture that I should sit down. So I sat down and as he finished (the prayer) he pointed to a room in the house and said: Do you see this room? I said: Yes. He said: There was a young man amongst us who had been newly wedded. We went with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) (to participate in the Battle) of Trench when a young man in the midday used to seek permission from Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) to return to his family. One day he sought permission from him and Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) (after granting him the permission) said to him: Carry your weapons with you for I fear the tribe of Quraiza (may harm you). The man carried the weapons and then came back and found his wife standing between the two doors. He bent towards her smitten by jealousy and made a dash towards her with a spear in order to stab her. She said: Keep your spear away and enter the house until you see that which has made me come out. He entered and found a big snake coiled on the bedding. He darted with the spear and pierced it and then went out having fixed it in the house, but the snake quivered and attacked him and no one knew which of them died first, the snake or the young man. We came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) and made a mention to him and said: Supplicate to Allah that that (man) may be brought back to life. Thereupon he said: Ask forgiveness for your companion and then said: There are in Medina jinns who have accepted Islam, so when you see any one of them, pronounce a warning to it for three days, and if they appear before you after that, then kill it for that is a devil.
Book 26: Number 5558: Asma’ b. ‘Ubaid reported about a person who was called as-Sa’ib having said: We visited Abu Sa’id Khudri. When we had been sitting (with him) we heard a stir under his bed. When we looked we found a big snake, the rest of the hadith is the same. And in this Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) is reported to have said: Verily in these houses there live aged (snakes), so when you see one of them, make life hard for it for three days, and if it goes away (well and good), otherwise kill it for (in that case) it would be a nonbeliever. And he (the Holy Prophet) said (to his Companions): Go and bury your companion (who had died by the snake bite).
Book 26: Number 5559: Abu Sa’id Khudri reported Allah’s Messenger having said: There is a group of jinns in Medina who accepted Islam, so he who would see anything from these occupants should warn him three times; and if he appears after that, he should kill him for he is a satan.
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Book 17 : Prohibited Actions
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Chapter 322 : Undesirability of Reviling Fever
Hadith: 1726. Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) visited Umm Sa’ib (or Umm Musaiyyab) and asked her, “What ails you O Umm Sa’ib (or Umm Musaiyyab)? You are shivering.” She replied: “It is a fever, may Allah not bless it!” He said to her, “Do not revile fever, for it cleanses out the sins of the sons of Adam in the same way that a furnace removes the dirt of iron.”
Commentary: We learn from this Hadith that as diseases are means of expiation of sins, one should not condemn them. More so for the person that they are a part of fate – the Will of Allah. However, there is no harm in taking necessary measures to overcome them because Shari’ah makes it obligatory to do so.
Riyad AlSaliheen > Book 17 : Prohibited actions
Chapter 361: Undesirability of departing from or coming to a Place stricken by a Epidemic
Allah, the Exalted, says:
“Wheresoever you may be, death will overtake you even if you are in fortresses built up strong and high!” (4:78)
“And do not throw yourselves into destruction.” (2:195)
Hadith: 1791. Ibn `Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: `Umar bin Al-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him) set out for Ash-Sham (the region comprising Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan). As he reached at Sargh (a town by the side of Hijaz) he came across the governor of Al-Ajnad, Abu `Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah (May Allah be pleased with him) and his companions. They informed him that anhad broken out in Syria. Ibn `Abbas relates: `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) said to me: “Call to me the earliest Muhajirun (Emigrants).” So I called them. He sought their advice and told them that an epidemic had broken out in Ash-Sham. There was a difference of opinion whether they should proceed further or retreat to their homes in such a situation. Some of them said: “You have set forth to fight the enemy, and therefore you should not go back;” whereas some of them said: “As you have along with you many eminent Companions of Messenger of Allah (PBUH), we would not advice you to set forth to the place of the plague (and thus expose them deliberately to a danger).” `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) said: “You can now go away.” He said: “Call to me the Ansar (the Helpers).” So I called them to him, and he consulted them and they differed in their opinions as well. He said: “Now, you may go.” He again said: “Call the old (wise people) of the Quraish who had emigrated before the conquest of Makkah.” I called them. `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) consulted them in this issue and not even two persons among them differed in the opinions. They said: “We think that you should go back along with the people and do not take them to this scourge. `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) made an announcement to the people, saying: “In the morning I intend to go back, and I want you to do the same.” Abu ‘Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah (May Allah be pleased with him) said: “Are you going to run away from the Divine Decree?” Thereupon `Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) said: “O Abu ‘Ubaidah ! Had it been someone else to say this.” (‘Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) did not like to differ with him). He said: “Yes, we are running from the Divine Decree to the Divine Decree. What do you think if you have camels and you happen to get down a valley having two sides, one of them covered with foliage and the other being barren, will you not act according to the Divine Decree if you graze them in vegetative land? In case you graze them in the barren land, even then you will be doing so according to the Divine Decree.
There happened to come `Abdur-Rahman bin `Auf who had been absent for some of his needs. He said: I have knowledge about it. I heard the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) saying, “If you get wind of the outbreak of plague in a land, you should not enter it; but if it spreads in the land where you are, you should not depart from it.” Thereupon `Umar bin Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him) praised Allah and went back. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Commentary: “Ajnad” stands for five regions of Syria: Palestine, Jordan, Damascus, Hims and Qansarin. (An-Nawawi). ‘Umar (May Allah be pleased with him) praised Allah for the reason that his own Ijtihad was in accordance with the Hadith of the Prophet (PBUH). The opinion given by the groups of Ansar and Muhajirun before this Ijtihad was also based on some principles of Shari`ah: those who had advised not to return had evinced submission to the Will of Allah and their absolute trust in Him, and the other group which had preferred the way of precaution had suggested to avoid any such action which could prove harmful.
Although such precautionary measures could not save them from the Divine Decree, they decided to take all possible precautions because this is what is ordained by Allah. In fact, this was the basis of the Ijtihad made by `Umar, the veracity of which was proved by the Hadith of the Prophet (PBUH). This Hadith confirmed the point of view of Imam An-Nawawi. Thus, this Hadith highlights the following four important points:
1.The test of validity of any decision is its correspondence with Shari`ah.
2.The desirability of mutual consultation.
3.The power of the Imam to depart from the advice of the consultative body.
4.The responsibility of the Imam to make every possible effort for the security of his subjects.
Hadith: 1792. Usamah bin Zaid (May Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (PBUH) said, “If you get wind of the outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
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Book 29 Illness and visiting those who are ill
Adab Al Mufrad > Book 29 : Illness and Visiting those who are ill
Chapter 226. The expiation of someone who is ill
491. Ghatif ibn al-Harith said that a man came to Abu ‘Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah while he was in pain and asked, “What is the reward of the amir?” Abu ‘Ubayda said, “Do you know that for which you will be rewarded?” The man replied, “We will be rewarded for things which happen to us which we dislike.” Abu ‘Ubayda said, “Rather you will be rewarded for what you spend in the Cause of Allah and what is spent on you. Then there is a reckoning for all parts of the saddle, even the horse’s bridle. Allah will remove your errors from you for the sake of this fatigue which has afflicted your bodies.”
Grade: Da’eef (Weak)
492. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “A Muslim does not encounter fatigue, tiredness, concern, sorrow, injury or grief, or even a thorn which pricks him without Allah expiating his errors for him by that.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Allah’s mercy over the Muslim is extremely great. Apart from the favors of not affirming servitude to any deity except Allah, and believing in and following the Prophetﷺ, his pains and sorrow also bring benefits to him as long as he bears them patiently, not wailing over them. Wondrous is the affair of the Muslim, all his affairs are good for him!
493.’Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Sa’id reported that his father said, “I was with Salman when he visited a sick person in Kinda. When he went in, he said, ‘Good news! Allah makes the illness of the believer an expiation for him and a restoration, whereas the illness of the corrupt person is like a camel whose people hobble it and the let it go. It doe sot know why it was hobbled or released.’”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The believer gains from his illness: they expiate for him his sins and draw him close to Allah’s mercy. When we visit the sick, it is recommended that they should be reminded about things that gladden them and help relieve their pains. If the sick person is known to be from the righteous, he could even be reminded of his deeds and the reward that awaits him with Allah the most High. The hadeeth also relates the huge loss upon which is the disbeliever. We seek Allah’s refuge from disbelief.
494. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Affliction will continue to trouble the believers, men and women, in their bodies, their families, and their property until they meet Allah Almighty purified of every wrong action.” Another transmission adds, “and in their children.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The hadīth describes how any illness or anxiety that besets a Muslim results in purification of his soul and forgiveness for his shortcomings. Therefore if a person is tested in this way he should be patient and expect reward from Allah as expiation from his sins. In this context though trouble is not sought after as the Prophetﷺ always asked for well-being and good health and often prayed seeking refuge from serious illness, it is a sign of the mercy of Allah that one sometimes has minor illnesses to make one remember Allah’s bounty of good health and strength
495. Abu Hurayra said, “A bedouin came and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked, ‘Has Umm Mildam (fever) got hold of you?’ ‘What is Umm Mildam?’ he asked. He said, ‘The heat between the skin and the flesh.’ The bedouin said, ‘No.’ He asked, ‘Have you got a headache?’ ‘What is headache?’ the man asked. He replied, ‘A wind which appears in the head and beats the veins.’ ‘No,’ he said, When he stood up, he said, ‘Whoever wants to look at a man who is one of the people of the Fire,’ i.e. ‘let them look at that man.’”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Adab Al Mufrad > Book 29 : Illness and Visiting those who are ill
Chapter 228: A patient is credited with the deeds that he used to do when healthy
500. It is narrated by Abdullah bin Amr that Prophet (ﷺ) said, “When a person falls ill then the reward of those deeds is also recorded for him which he used to perform when he was healthy.
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The hadeeth demonstrates the significance of engaging in lots of good deeds while one is healthy before one becomes prevented by illness. However, during illness, in order to establish the rewards earned from good deeds performed while healthy, the ill should intend that were he healthy, he would have continued upon the good deeds.
501. Anas bin Maalik has reported that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “When Allah involves a Muslim in bodily [pain then he is credited with a reward for those deeds which he was used to do when he was healthy as long as he is ill. Thus, if Allah gives him healing, He washes him (clean of sins). But, if he causes him to die then he forgives him.
Grade: Hasan (Sound) and Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The word, ‘asalahu is taken from the word, ‘Asal meaning, ‘extolment’
502. Abu Hurayrah said that fever presented itself before the Holy Prophet (ﷺ). It said to him, ’’Send me to those people with whom you have a very deep connection. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent it to the Ansar. So, fever gripped them for six days and six nights. Their feverish condition became very serious and the Prophet visited them at their homes. Thy complained of fever and the Holy Prophet (ﷺ) went to each house and prayed for their health. When he was returning, one of their women followed behind him and said, “By Him who has sent you with the truth, I am of the Ansar and my father is also one of the Ansar. Just as you have prayed for the Ansar, pray for me too.” The Prophet sg asked her, “What is it that you wish? If you wish, I will pray to Allah that he grant you health but if you are patient then paradise is for you.” She said, “I will endure (fever) patiently and will not risk (my chance of) admission to paradise.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The expressions, “Fever came…”, “…and said…” “…the Prophet sent it…” are clear and should not be given other than its apparent meaning for the Prophetﷺ conveyed the message of his Lord the Most High, in the most clear language without ambiguity. Owing to the Prophet’s preference for them, the Ansar are also loved by Allah the Exalted and were therefore, tried with the affliction which in turn, increased them in faith, endurance, patience and forgiveness from Allah. The hadeeth shows that the companions t were never ready to stake entrance into the Garden for the pleasures of this World
503. Abu Hurayrah said that he did not like any illness more than fever because it went into each of his limbs. And, Allah grants each limb its share of reward.
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The hadīth describes how any illness or anxiety that besets a Muslim results in purification of his soul and forgiveness for his shortcomings. 329 Therefore if a person is tested in this way he should be patient and expect reward from Allah as expiation from his sins. In this context though trouble is not sought after as the Prophetﷺ always asked for well-being and good health and often prayed seeking refuge from serious illness, it is a sign of the mercy of Allah that one sometimes has minor illnesses to make one remember Allah’s bounty of good health and strength
504. It is reported by Abu wail that someone said to Abu Nuhaylah (when he was ill), “Pray to Allah.” So, he made this supplication, “Oh Allah, lessen the illness but do not diminish the reward.” He was again asked to supplicate Allah and he said, “O Allah, let me be among the near ones and make my mother among the hoor (maids of Paradise)”.
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: It is reported that Abu Nuhayla – may Allah be pleased with him – sustained the injury for which he was asked to supplicate from an arrow-shot which reached him during a military expedition. It describes the sincere crave of the companions – may Allah be pleased with them – for rewards from Allah and forgiveness of sins. Even during illness, children should not forget to supplicate for their parents.
505. Ata bin Abu Rabah said that Ibn Abbas asked him if he would like him to show him a woman who would go to paradise. So, he said that he would certainly like (him to show him the woman). Ibn Abbas said to him. “This is a black woman who came to the Prophet and said to him, “Messenger of Allah, I am subject to fits and become uncovered, so make a supplication to Allah to cure me, “The Prophet (ﷺ) said to her, “If you endure it patiently, you will be rewarded with paradise, but if you wish I will make a supplication to Allah to cure you.” The woman said, ’I shall endure it. But, (when I get fits) I become uncovered, make supplication to Allah that I may not become uncovered. So, he made a supplication for her.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Shaykh Husayn al-‘Awaayisha (hafizahullah) said: “It shows the permissibility of describing (a person’s) color, height or shortness in order that such a person is known when that is necessary and there is no other way (to give the description), while not intending humiliation and insult.” Rather than showing vexation and annoyance because of certain illness one may suffer, we should endure patiently, supplicate to Allah to remove the distress and seek other legitimate means of cure while craving to be rewarded and forgiven our sins. See also narrations no. 506 and 507.
506. It is reported by Ibn Jurayj that Ata said to him, “I saw the woman, Umm Zufar, on the steps of the Kabah. (She was) a black woman, tall in height”. Ayeshah, said that the Prophet said, “If a thorn pricks a Believer or he is hurt more than that then that is an expiation for his sins.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
507. Abu Hurayrah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying, “if a thorn pricks a Muslim in this world and he hopes for the reward against it then Allah forgives him his sins on the day of Resurrection”.
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
508. It is narrated by Jabir that he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say, “If a believing man or a believing woman or a Muslim man or Muslim woman falls ill then Allah, the exalted, forgives them their sins (because of their illness).”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Allah’s mercy over the Muslim is extremely great. Apart from the favors of not affirming servitude to any deity except Allah, and believing in and following the Prophetﷺ, his pains and sorrow also bring benefits to him as long as he bears them patiently, not wailing over them. Wondrous is the affair of the Muslim, all his affairs are good for him.
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Chapter 229. Is it a complaint when a sick person says, “I am in pain”?
509. Hisham reported that his father (‘Urwa ibn az-Zubayr) said, “‘Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr and I went to visit Asma’ ten nights before ‘Abdullah was killed. Asma’ was in pain and ‘Abdullah asked her, ‘How are you feeling?’ ‘In pain,’ she replied. He said, ‘I am near death.’ She said, ‘Perhaps you desire my death and that is the reason you desire it? Do not do that. By Allah, I do not want to die until I reach one of the two ends: either you will be killed and I will leave you to Allah or you will win and I will be content. Beware of having your portion presented to you and then you do not agree with it. Accept it, even though you dislike death.” Ibn az-Zubayr meant that he would be killed and that would grieve her.
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: The point of reference in the hadeeth is the permissibility of saying, “I am in pain” during illness and that it does not amount to impatience and complaint
510. Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported that he came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he had a fever. He had a covering over him. He placed his hand on him and discovered that it was hot above the covering. Abu Sa’id exclaimed, ‘How hot your fever is, Messenger of Allah!’ He said, ‘We are like that. The affliction is hard on us, but the reward is doubled for us.’ He said, ‘Messenger of Allah, which people have the greatest affliction?’ He replied, ‘The Prophets, and then the righteous. One of them was tested by poverty to such an extent that he could only find a robe to cover himself with and he wore it. Another was tested by fleas until they killed him. They have greater joy in affliction than one of you has in gifts.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Similarly, the Prophetﷺ said, “The greatnes of reward is with the severity of affliction. If Allah loves a people, he afflicts them. So, whoever endures (patiently), earns (Allah’s) pleasure and whoever feels bitter and angered earns (Allah’s) displeasure.” (At-Tirmidhee and others). These narrations and others in their meaning about afflictions, show as Imam Al-Albaanee (الله رحمه (explained, “that the stronger the believer gets in faith, the more he is afflicted and tried, and vice-versa.” The point of reference in the hadeeth here, is that mentioning the severity of one’s illness or affliction, does not basically count as bitterness and indignance.
Adab Al Mufrad > Book 29 : Illness and Visiting those who are ill
Chapter 237. The hadith about the person who is ill and the person who visits him
522. Abu Bakr ibn Juz’ and Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir were some people from the mosque who visited ‘Umar ibn al-Hakam ibn Rafi’ al-Ansari. They said, “Abu Hafs! Relate to us!” He said, “I heard ‘Abdullah say that he heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, “When someone visits a sick person, he dives into mercy to such an extent that when he sits with him, he settles in it.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Apart from the tremendous virtues of visiting the sick, the hadeeth encourages whoever is giving an admonition to consider the apprioprateness of whatever he is going to talk about. The point of reference in it is the permissibility for the visitors to request the sick person to talk to them.
Adab Al Mufrad > Book 29 : Illness and Visiting those who are ill
Chapter 241. What the sick person answers
528. ‘Amr ibn Sa’id said, “Al-Hajjaj visited Ibn ‘Umar while I was with him, He asked, ‘How are you?’ ‘Sound,’ he replied. He asked, ‘What is wrong with you?’ He replied, “I have been afflicted by the business of carrying arms on a day when it is not lawful to carry them.’ He was referring to al- Hajjaj.*” * That was when al-Hajjaj was laying siege to ‘Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr in the Haram.”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Hajjaj mentioned here, is Ibn Yūsuf ath-Thaqafī, the notorious ruler of Banū Umayya. Ibn ‘Umar (عنهام الله ريض (was wounded in the sole of his feet with an arrowhead and his feet would stick to the stirrups of his ride. The narration indicates the courageousness of the Companions, and the fact that they upheld practicing caution in advance. Unnecessarily taking arms to public gatherings, unfortunately contradicts this noble practice. The point of reference in the narration vis-à-vis the chapter heading is the companion’s response to his visitor.
Adab Al Mufrad > Book 29 : Illness and Visiting those who are ill
Chapter 244. Someone who dislikes for visitors to look at other things in his house
531. ‘Abdullah ibn Abi’l-Hudhayl said, “‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud went to visit a sick person with some other people. There was a woman in the room and one of the men began to look at her, ‘Abdullah said to him, ‘It would have been better for you if your eyes had been gouged out.’”
Grade: Saheeh (Authentic)
Commentary: Dislike mentioned in the chapter heading is of prohibition based the statement of Ibn Mas’ud – t – the like of which is authentically reported from the Prophetﷺ about a person unlawfully looking around the house. Since the eyes were contradicting the essence of their creation: obedience and not disobedience to Allah, it would have been better if they were gouged out than been employed for sin!
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