Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3491
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ شُجَاعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سَالِمٌ الأَفْطَسُ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ " الشِّفَاءُ فِي ثَلاَثٍ شَرْبَةِ عَسَلٍ وَشَرْطَةِ مِحْجَمٍ وَكَيَّةٍ بِنَارٍ وَأَنْهَى أُمَّتِي عَنِ الْكَىِّ " . رَفَعَهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ narrated to us: Marwān ibn Shujāʿ narrated to us: Sālim al-Afṭas narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: ‘Healing is in three things: a drink of honey, an incision by a cupper, and cauterization with fire. But I forbid my community from cauterization.’ He attributed it to the Prophet.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report first includes cauterization among three forms of healing, then states a prohibition against it. The wording is retained without reconciling the two clauses. The final word رَفَعَهُ indicates that the report is attributed/raised to the Prophet.
قَالَ " الشِّفَاءُ فِي ثَلاَثٍ شَرْبَةِ عَسَلٍ وَشَرْطَةِ مِحْجَمٍ وَكَيَّةٍ بِنَارٍ وَأَنْهَى أُمَّتِي عَنِ الْكَىِّ " .
Cauterization is named among three forms of healing, followed immediately by ‘I forbid my community from cauterization’; both statements are explicit in the same report.
Should both statements remain unqualified as separate clauses, as translated?