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.”

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).”

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.”

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 ”

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?”

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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

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).”

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.

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.’

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?”

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.”

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.”

Note: Medically it is well-known now that a fly carries some pathogens on some parts of its body as mentioned by the Prophet. (before 1400 years approx. when the humans knew very little of modern medicine.) Similarly Allah , created organisms and other mechanisms which kill these pathogens e.g. Pencillin Fungus kills pathogenic organisms like Staphylococci and others etc. Recently experiments have been done under supervision which indicate that a fly carries the disease (pathogens) plus the antidote for those pathogenic organisms. Ordinarily when a fly touches a liquid food it infects the liquid with pathogens, so it must be dipped in order to release also the antidote for those pathogens to act as a counterbalance to the pathogens. Regarding this subject I also wrote through a friend of mine to Dr. Muhammad M. El-Samahy, chief of LladIth Dept. in AlAzhar University, Cairo (Egypt); he has mentioned that the microbiologists have proved that there are longitudinal yeast cells living as parasites inside the belly of the fly and these yeast cells in order to repeat their life cycle protrude through respiratory tubules of the fly and if the fly is dipped in a liquid, these cells burst in the fluid and the content of those cells is an antidote for the pathogens which the fly carries.