Sahih Muslim

The Book of Greetings

كتاب السلام

Chapter 26: For Every Disease There Is A Remedy, And It Is Recommended To Treat Disease

لِكُلِّ دَاءٍ دَوَاءٌ وَاسْتِحْبَابُ التَّدَاوِي ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 2206
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Jabir reported that Umm Salama sought permission from Allah's messenger (may Allah's peace upon him) tor getting herself cupped. The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) asked Abu Taiba to cup her. He (Jabir) said

I think he (Abu Taiba) was her faster brother or a young boy before entering upon the adolescent period.

Sahih Muslim 2207a
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Jabir reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent a phystian to Ubayy b. Ka'b. He cut the vein and then cauterised it.

Sahih Muslim 2207b
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A'mash reported this with the same chain of transmitters and he made no mention of the fact that he cut one of his veins.

Sahih Muslim 2207c
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Jabir b. 'Abdillah reported that on the day of Ahzab Ubayy received the wound of an arrow in his medial arm vein. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) cauterised it.

Sahih Muslim 2208
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Jabir reported that Sa'd b. Mu'adh received a wound of the arrow in his vein. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) cauterised it with a rod and it was swollen, to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) did it for the second time.

Sahih Muslim 2209a
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Ibn Umar reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The fever from the vehement raging of the (heat of Hell), so cool it with the help of water.

Sahih Muslim 2209b
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Ibn Umar reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying

Fever is due to vehemence of the heat of Hell, so cool it with water.

Sahih Muslim 2209c
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Ibn Umar reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Fever is from the vehement raging of the fire of Hell, so extinguish it with water.

Sahih Muslim 2209d
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Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Fever is from the vehement Paging of the Hell-fire, so cool it with water.

Sahih Muslim 2210a
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'A'isha reported Allah's messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Fever is from the vehement raging of the Hell-fire, so cool it with water.

Sahih Muslim 2210b
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This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hisham with the same chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim 2211a
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Asma' reported that a woman running high fever was brought to her. She asked water to be brought and then sprinkled it in the opening of a shirt at the uppermost part of the chest and said that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said

Cool (the fever) with water. for it is because of the vehemence of the beat of Hell.

Sahih Muslim 2211b
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Hisham reported this hadith with the same chain of transmitters. In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Numair (the words are)

" She poured water on her sides and in the opening of the shirt at the uppermost part of the chest." There is no mention of these words:" It is from the vehemence of the heat of the Hell." This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Usama with the same chain of transmitters.

Sahih Muslim 2212a
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Rafi' b. Khadij reported

I heard Allah's messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The fever is due to the intense heat of the Hell, so cool it with water.

Sahih Muslim 2212b
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Rafi' b. Khadij reported

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The fever is due to the intense heat of Hell, so cool it down in your (bodies) with water. Aba Bakr has made no mention of the word" from you" ('ankum), but he said that Rafi' b. Khadij had informed him of it.

Chapter 27: It Is Disliked To Administer Medicine In The Side Of The Mouth Forcibly

كَرَاهَةِ التَّدَاوِي بِاللَّدُودِ ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 2213
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'A'isha reported

we (intended to pour) medicine in the mouth of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in his illness, but he pointed out (with the gesture of his hand) that it should not be poured into the mouth against his will. We said: (It was perhaps due to the natural) aversion of the patient against medicine. When he recovered, he said: Medicine should be poured into the mouth of every one of you except Ibn 'Abbas, for he was not present amongst you.

Chapter 28: Treatment With Indian Aloeswood, Which Is Costmary

التَّدَاوِي بِالْعُودِ الْهِنْدِيِّ وَهُوَ الْكُسْتُ ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 287d, 2214a
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Umm Qais, daughter of Mihsan, the sister of 'Ukasha b. Mihsan said

I visited Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) along with my son who had not, by that time, been weaned and he urinated over his (clothes). He ordered water to be brought and sprinkled (it) over them. She (further) said: I visited him (Allah's Apostle) along with my son and I had squeezed the swelling in the uvula, whereupon he said: Why do you afflict your children by compressing like this? Use this Indian aloeswood, for it contains seven types of remedies, one among them being a remedy for pleurisy. It is applied through the nose for a swelling of the uvula and poured into the side of the mouth for pleurisy.

Sahih Muslim 2214b, 287e
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Umm Qais, daughter of Mihsan, was one of the earlier female emigrants who had pledged allegiance to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). She was the sister of Ukasha b. Mihsan, one of the posterity of Asad b. Khuzaima. She reported that she came to Allah's messenger (ﷺ) along with her son who had not attained the age of weaning and she had compressed the swelling of his uvula. (Yunus said

She compressed the uvula because she was afraid that there might be swelling of uvula.) Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Why do you afflict your children by compressing in this way? You should use Indian aloeswood, for it has seven remedies in it, one of them being the remedy for pleurisy. Ubaidullah reported that she had told that that was the child who had urinated in the lap of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) called for water and sprinkled it on his urine, but he did not wash it well.

Chapter 29: Healing Sickness With The Black Seed

التَّدَاوِي بِالْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 2215a
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Abu Huraira reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Nigella seed is a remedy for every disease except death.

Sahih Muslim 2215b
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This hadith has been narrated through other chains of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.