Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3489
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ عَقَّارِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " مَنِ اكْتَوَى أَوِ اسْتَرْقَى فَقَدْ بَرِئَ مِنَ التَّوَكُّلِ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah narrated to us, from Layth, from Mujāhid, from ʿAqqār ibn al-Mughīrah, from his father, from the Prophet, who said: ‘Whoever cauterizes himself or seeks ruqyah has disavowed reliance upon Allah.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The text names cauterization and seeking ruqyah, then says that the person has become free of reliance (tawakkul); no further explanation of the intended theological nuance is included.
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " مَنِ اكْتَوَى أَوِ اسْتَرْقَى فَقَدْ بَرِئَ مِنَ التَّوَكُّلِ " .
بَرِئَ مِنَ التَّوَكُّلِ means being free of or disavowing reliance; this translation preserves the strong wording but the passage does not explain its theological scope.
Should this be rendered literally as ‘has disavowed reliance upon Allah,’ or with a more interpretive clarification of tawakkul?