Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 3844

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرٌ، - يَعْنِي ابْنَ الْمُفَضَّلِ - عَنِ ابْنِ عَجْلاَنَ، عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ إِذَا وَقَعَ الذُّبَابُ فِي إِنَاءِ أَحَدِكُمْ فَامْقُلُوهُ فَإِنَّ فِي أَحَدِ جَنَاحَيْهِ دَاءً وَفِي الآخَرِ شِفَاءً وَإِنَّهُ يَتَّقِي بِجَنَاحِهِ الَّذِي فِيهِ الدَّاءُ فَلْيَغْمِسْهُ كُلَّهُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us: Bishr—that is, Ibn al-Mufaddal—narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAjlan, from Saʿid al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurayrah, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “If a fly falls into one of your vessels, immerse it fully, for one of its wings has disease and the other has a cure. It protects itself with the wing that has the disease, so immerse the whole fly.”