Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3484
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُصَفَّى الْحِمْصِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ ثَوْبَانَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ الأَنْمَارِيِّ، أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ يَحْتَجِمُ عَلَى هَامَتِهِ وَبَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ وَيَقُولُ " مَنْ أَهْرَاقَ مِنْهُ هَذِهِ الدِّمَاءَ فَلاَ يَضُرُّهُ أَنْ لاَ يَتَدَاوَى بِشَىْءٍ لِشَىْءٍ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muḥammad ibn al-Muṣaffā al-Ḥimṣī narrated to us: al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us: Ibn Thawbān narrated to us, from his father, from Abū Kabshah al-Anmārī, who told him that the Prophet used cupping on the crown of his head and between his shoulders. He would say: ‘Whoever has this blood drawn from him, it will not harm him to forgo treating himself with anything for any ailment.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The final clause is translated closely as a broad statement about treatment after cupping; no narrower medical scope is specified in the Arabic.
أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ يَحْتَجِمُ عَلَى هَامَتِهِ وَبَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ وَيَقُولُ " مَنْ أَهْرَاقَ مِنْهُ هَذِهِ الدِّمَاءَ فَلاَ يَضُرُّهُ أَنْ لاَ يَتَدَاوَى بِشَىْءٍ لِشَىْءٍ " .
The hadith wording broadly says that after this blood is drawn, it does not harm one to forgo treatment with anything for any ailment; no limitation or exception appears in this passage.
Is the final clause meant as a broad recommendation or as praise of cupping in a particular context?