Sahih al-Bukhari 5737

Saydān ibn Muḍārib Abū Muḥammad al-Bāhilī narrated to me: Abū Maʿshar al-Baṣrī—he is reliable—Yūsuf ibn Yazīd al-Barrāʾ, narrated to us; he said: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Akhnas Abū Mālik narrated to me, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from Ibn ʿAbbās: “A group of the Prophet’s ﷺ Companions passed by a watering place where there was someone who had been stung—or bitten by a snake. A man from the people at the watering place came to them and said, ‘Is there anyone among you who can recite healing prayers? There is a man here who has been stung—or bitten by a snake.’ One of them went and recited the Opening Chapter over some sheep, and the man recovered. He brought the sheep to his companions, but they disliked this and said, ‘You have taken payment for the Book of Allah.’ When they arrived in Medina, they said, ‘Messenger of Allah, he took payment for the Book of Allah.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘The most deserving thing for which you may take payment is the Book of Allah.’”