Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2041
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ، وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذِهِ الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ فَإِنَّ فِيهَا شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلاَّ السَّامَ " . وَالسَّامُ الْمَوْتُ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ بُرَيْدَةَ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ وَعَائِشَةَ . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ . وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ هِيَ الشُّونِيزُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn Abi ‘Umar and Sa‘id ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi narrated to us; they said: Sufyan narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Use this black seed, for it contains healing for every disease except al-sam.” Al-sam is death. Abu ‘Isa said: Reports on this topic are also related from Buraydah, Ibn ‘Umar, and ‘A’ishah. This hadith is hasan sahih. The black seed is shuniz.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source identifies the black seed as shuniz and explicitly glosses al-sam as death.