Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 3522

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ خُصَيْفَةَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، عَنْ نَافِعِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ الثَّقَفِيِّ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ قَدِمْتُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ وَبِي وَجَعٌ قَدْ كَادَ يُبْطِلُنِي فَقَالَ لِيَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ ‏ "‏ اجْعَلْ يَدَكَ الْيُمْنَى عَلَيْهِ وَقُلْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ أَعُوذُ بِعِزَّةِ اللَّهِ وَقُدْرَتِهِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَجِدُ وَأُحَاذِرُ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَقُلْتُ ذَلِكَ فَشَفَانِيَ اللَّهُ ‏.‏

Translation

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abū Bakr narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr narrated to us: Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Khuṣayfah, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb, from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, from ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ al-Thaqafī, who said: I came to the Prophet while I had a pain that was nearly incapacitating me. The Prophet said to me, ‘Place your right hand on it and say, “In the name of Allah. I seek refuge in Allah’s might and power from the evil of what I feel and what I fear,” seven times.’ I said that, and Allah healed me.

Notes and open questions — unreviewed
  • The instruction is to place the right hand on the site of pain, then say the supplication seven times. The closing clause attributes the healing to Allah.