Medicine

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Musaddad narrated to us: Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us: Saʿīd ibn Masrūq narrated to us, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah, from his grandfather, Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: I heard the Prophet ﷺ say, “Fever comes from the heat of Hell, so cool it with water.”

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ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us: Saʿīd narrated to us: Qatādah narrated to us that Anas ibn Mālik told them: “Some people—or men—from ʿUkl and ʿUraynah came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and spoke of accepting Islam. They said, ‘Prophet of Allah, we are people of herds, not people of settled farmland, and Medina does not agree with us.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ provided them with some camels and a herder, and instructed them to go out with him and drink their milk and urine. They set out until they reached the outskirts of al-Ḥarrah. They renounced Islam after accepting it, killed the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ herder, and drove off the camels. News reached the Prophet ﷺ, and he sent men in pursuit of them. He ordered that they be punished: their eyes were branded and their hands were cut off. They were left on the outskirts of al-Ḥarrah until they died in that condition.”

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Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us; he said: Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit informed me; he said: I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd say: I heard Usāmah ibn Zayd narrate to Saʿd, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, “If you hear that the plague has struck a land, do not enter it. If it breaks out in a land while you are there, do not leave it.” I said, “You heard him narrate this to Saʿd, and he did not object?” He said, “Yes.”

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf narrated to us: Mālik informed us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Nawfal, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with him) set out for Syria. When he reached Sargh, the commanders of the regions—Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ and his companions—met him and told him that an epidemic had broken out in Syria. Ibn ʿAbbās said: ʿUmar said, “Call the early Emigrants to me.” I called them. He consulted them and told them that the epidemic had broken out in Syria. They disagreed. Some said, “You set out on a mission, and we do not think you should turn back from it.” Others said, “With you are the remaining people and the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; we do not think you should expose them to this epidemic.” He said, “Leave me.” Then he said, “Call the Anṣār to me.” I called them, and he consulted them. They followed the same course as the Emigrants and disagreed as they had. He said, “Leave me.” Then he said, “Call the Quraysh elders who are here, among those who emigrated at the conquest.” I called them. Not two of them disagreed with him; they said, “We think you should return with the people and not expose them to this epidemic.” ʿUmar then announced among the people, “I am setting out at dawn, so set out at dawn with me.”

Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ said, “Are you fleeing from Allah’s decree?” ʿUmar said, “If only someone else had said that, Abū ʿUbaydah! Yes, we flee from Allah’s decree to Allah’s decree. What do you think: if you had camels that descended into a valley with two slopes, one fertile and the other barren, would you not be grazing them by Allah’s decree whether you grazed them on the fertile slope or the barren one?”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf then came. He had been away attending to one of his needs. He said, “I have knowledge of this. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, ‘If you hear that it has broken out in a land, do not go there. If it breaks out in a land while you are there, do not leave it in flight from it.’” ʿUmar praised Allah and then departed.

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf narrated to us: Mālik informed us, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir: ʿUmar set out for Syria. When he reached Sargh, news reached him that an epidemic had broken out in Syria. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf informed him that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “If you hear that it has broken out in a land, do not go there. If it breaks out in a land while you are there, do not leave it in flight from it.”

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf narrated to us: Mālik informed us, from Nuʿaym al-Mujmir, from Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Neither al-Masīḥ nor the plague will enter Medina.”

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us: ʿĀṣim narrated to us: Ḥafṣah bint Sīrīn narrated to me; she said: Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) asked me, “What did Yaḥyā die of?” I said, “The plague.” He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The plague is martyrdom for every Muslim.”

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Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Mālik, from Sumayy, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, “The one who dies of an abdominal illness is a martyr, and the one who dies in a plague is a martyr.”

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Isḥāq narrated to us: Ḥibbān informed us: Dāwūd ibn Abī al-Furāt narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Yaʿmar, from ʿĀʾishah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, who informed us that she asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the plague. The Prophet of Allah ﷺ told her: “It was a punishment that Allah sent upon whomever He willed, but Allah made it a mercy for the believers. If the plague strikes a servant and he remains in his land patiently, knowing that only what Allah has decreed for him will befall him, he will have a reward like that of a martyr.”

Al-Naḍr also transmitted it from Dāwūd.

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Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā narrated to me: Hishām informed us, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her): “During the illness in which he died, the Prophet ﷺ would recite the protective chapters and blow over himself. When his illness became severe, I would recite them and blow over him, and wipe him with his own hand, seeking its blessing.” I asked al-Zuhrī, “How would he blow?” He said, “He would blow over his hands, then wipe his face with them.”

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to me: Ghundar narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Abū Bishr, from Abū al-Mutawakkil, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī (may Allah be pleased with him): “Some of the Prophet’s ﷺ Companions came to a clan of the Arabs, but they did not provide them with hospitality. While they were in that state, the clan’s chief was stung. They said, ‘Do you have any medicine or anyone who can recite healing prayers?’ They replied, ‘You did not host us, so we will not do anything until you give us a reward.’ They agreed to give them a flock of sheep. One of them began reciting the Opening Chapter, gathering his saliva and spitting, and the man recovered. They brought them the sheep, but they said, ‘We will not take it until we ask the Prophet ﷺ.’ They asked him, and he laughed and said, ‘How did you know it was a healing recitation? Take it, and set aside a share for me.’”

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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.’”

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Muḥammad ibn Kathīr narrated to us: Sufyān informed us; he said: Maʿbad ibn Khālid narrated to me; he said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād, from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed me—or instructed that healing recitation be sought—for the evil eye.”

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Muḥammad ibn Khālid narrated to me: Muḥammad ibn Wahb ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Dimashqī narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī narrated to us: al-Zuhrī informed us, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from Zaynab bint Abī Salamah, from Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her): “The Prophet ﷺ saw a young girl in her house with a dark mark on her face. He said, ‘Seek healing recitation for her, for she has been affected by the evil eye.’” ʿUqayl said, from al-Zuhrī: ʿUrwah informed me, from the Prophet ﷺ. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sālim also transmitted it from al-Zubaydī.

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Isḥāq ibn Naṣr narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, from Maʿmar, from Hammām, from Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, “The evil eye is real.” He forbade tattooing.

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us: Sulaymān al-Shaybānī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad narrated to us, from his father, who said: I asked ʿĀʾishah about ruqyah for a venomous sting. She said, “The Prophet ﷺ granted permission for ruqyah against every venomous creature.”

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Musaddad narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wārith narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who said: “Thābit and I went in to Anas ibn Mālik. Thābit said, ‘Abū Ḥamzah, I am suffering.’ Anas said, ‘Shall I recite over you the healing prayer of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ Anas said, ‘O Allah, Lord of the people, remover of harm, heal! You are the Healer; there is no healer but You. Grant a healing that leaves no illness behind.’”

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ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī narrated to us: Yaḥyā narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us; Sulaymān narrated to me, from Muslim, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her): “The Prophet ﷺ would seek protection for some of his family members, wiping them with his right hand and saying, ‘O Allah, Lord of the people, remove the harm. Heal him; You are the Healer. There is no healing except Your healing, a healing that leaves no illness behind.’” Sufyān said: I related it to Manṣūr, and he narrated to me from Ibrāhīm, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾishah, a similar report.

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Aḥmad ibn Abī Rajāʾ narrated to me: al-Naḍr narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, who said: My father informed me, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would recite a healing supplication, saying, “Remove the harm, Lord of the people. In Your hand is the healing; none can remove it except You.”

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ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd narrated to me, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her): “The Prophet ﷺ would say to a sick person, ‘In the name of Allah: the dust of our land, moistened with the saliva of some of us; our sick person is healed by the permission of our Lord.’”