Book 76: Medicine and Healing
Sahih al-Bukhari
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Muhammad bin Muthanna narrated to us that Abu Ahmad (Muhammad bin Abdullah) Zubairi told us that Umar bin Sa'id bin Abi Husain told us. He said: Ata' bin Abi Rabah narrated to us. Ata' narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “Allah has not sent down any illness but that He has certainly also sent down its cure.”
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Qutaibah bin Sa'id narrated to us that Bishr bin Mufaddal told us. He narrated from Khalid bin Dhakwan, Khalid from Hazrat Rubayyi' bint Mu'awwidh bin Afra' (ra). She used to say: We used to go to battle with the Messenger of Allah (saw); we would give the people water to drink and serve them, and take the slain and the wounded back to Medina.
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Husain (bin Muhammad bin Ziyad) narrated to me that Ahmad bin Mani' told us that Marwan bin Shuja' narrated to us. Salim Aftas told us. He narrated from Sa'id bin Jubair, Sa'id from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra). He said: Healing is in three things: in a drink of honey, in cupping, and in cauterising with fire; and I forbid my Ummah cauterisation. (Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra)) related this hadith as Marfu' (attributed to the Prophet (saw)), and (Ya'qub bin Abdullah) Qummi related it from Laith, Laith from Mujahid, Mujahid from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). In it only honey and cupping are mentioned.
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Muhammad bin Abdur Rahim narrated to me that Suraij bin Yunus Abul Harith informed us that Marwan bin Shuja' told us. Marwan narrated from Salim Aftas, Salim from Sa'id bin Jubair, Sa'id from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “Healing is in three things: in cupping, or in a drink of honey, or in cauterising with fire; and I forbid my Ummah cauterisation.”
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Ali bin Abdullah (Madini) told us that Abu Usamah narrated to us. He said: Hisham (bin Urwah) told me. Hisham narrated from his father, his father from Hazrat Aishah (ra). She used to say: The Prophet (saw) liked sweet things and honey.
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Abu Nu'aim narrated to us that Abdur Rahman bin Ghasil told us. He narrated from Asim bin Umar bin Qatadah. He said: I heard Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (ra). Hazrat Jabir (ra) said: I heard the Prophet (saw); he (saw) used to say: “If there is good in anything among your remedies,” or he said: “if there should be good in anything among your remedies, then it is in cupping, or in a drink of honey, or in burning with fire that suits the illness; and I do not like to cauterise.”
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Abbas bin Walid told us that Abdul A'la narrated to us. Sa'id (bin Abi Arubah) told us. Sa'id narrated from Qatadah, Qatadah from Abul Mutawakkil (Naji), Abul Mutawakkil from Hazrat Abu Sa'id (Khudri (ra)), that a man came to the Prophet (saw) and said: My brother has a complaint of the stomach. He (saw) said: “Give him honey to drink.” Then he came to him a second time; he said: “Give him honey to drink.” Then he came a third time; he said: “Give him honey to drink.” Then he came and said: I have given it to him (but he has not recovered). He said: “Allah has spoken the truth, and your brother's stomach has lied. Give him honey to drink.” So he gave him honey to drink, and he was cured.
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Muslim bin Ibrahim told us that Sallam bin Miskin Abu Nuh Basri narrated to us that Thabit told us. Thabit narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra) that some people were afflicted by an illness. They said: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! Arrange lodging and food for us. When they recovered, they said: The climate of Medina is bad. He (saw) lodged them at Harrah among some of his camels and said: “Drink their milk.” When they had recovered, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet (saw) and drove away his camels. So he sent men after them and then (in punishment for their crime) had their hands and feet cut off and had heated irons passed over their eyes. I saw one of them striking his tongue on the ground until he died in that state. Sallam (bin Miskin) used to say: It reached me that Hajjaj (bin Yusuf) said to Hazrat Anas (ra): Tell me the severest punishment which the Prophet (saw) gave, and he related this punishment to Hajjaj. When this reached Hasan (Basri), he said: Would that he had not related this to Hajjaj.
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Musa bin Isma'il narrated to us that Hammam (bin Yahya) told us. He narrated from Qatadah (bin Di'amah), Qatadah from Hazrat Anas (ra), that some people found the climate of Medina unsuitable, so the Prophet (saw) commanded them to join his shepherd, that is, the camels, and to drink there their milk and their urine. So they joined his shepherd and drank there their milk and urine, until their bodies became quite healthy. Then they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. When this news reached the Prophet (saw), he sent men in pursuit of them. They were brought, and he (saw) (in punishment for their crime) had their hands and feet cut off and had heated irons passed over their eyes. Qatadah said: Muhammad bin Sirin told me that this incident took place before the prescribed legal punishments were revealed.
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Abdullah bin Abi Shaibah told me that Ubaidullah (bin Musa Kufi) narrated to us. Isra'il (bin Yunus) told us. Isra'il narrated from Mansur (bin Mu'tamir), Mansur from Khalid bin Sa'd. He said: We set out on a journey, and Ghalib bin Abjar was also with us, and he fell ill on the way. We reached Medina while he was still ill. (Abdullah) bin Abi Atiq came to visit him, and he said to us: Use this black seed (kalonji). Take five or seven (grains) of it and grind them. Then mix it with a few drops of olive oil and drop it into his nose, on this side and on that side too. For Hazrat Aishah (ra) narrated to me that she heard the Prophet (saw); he (saw) used to say: “This black seed is a cure for every illness except Sam.” I asked: What is Sam? He said: “Death.”
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Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith (bin Sa'd) told us. He narrated from Uqail, Uqail from Ibn Shihab. He said that Abu Salamah and Sa'id bin Musayyab told me that Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) told both of them that he heard the Messenger of Allah (saw); he (saw) used to say that in the black seed there is a cure for every illness except Sam. Ibn Shihab said: And Sam means death, and by the black seed is meant Shuniz (that is, kalonji).
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Hibban bin Musa narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) informed us that Yunus bin Yazid told us. Yunus narrated from Uqail, Uqail from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Urwah, Urwah from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that she used to advise feeding Talbinah to the sick and to one grieving over someone who has died, and she used to say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw); he (saw) used to say that Talbinah gives strength to the heart of the sick person and removes grief to some extent.
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Farwah bin Abil Maghra' narrated to us that Ali bin Mus-hir told us. He narrated from Hisham (bin Urwah), Hisham from his father, his father from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that she used to advise feeding Talbinah, and she used to say that it is disliked (by the sick) and it is beneficial.
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Mu'alla bin Asad narrated to us that Wuhaib (bin Khalid) told us. He narrated from (Abdullah) bin Tawus, Abdullah from his father, his father from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), that the Prophet (saw) had himself cupped and gave the cupper his wages, and put medicine into his nose.
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And I took a son of mine to the Prophet (saw) who did not yet eat food; he urinated on him (saw). He asked for water and sprinkled it over the cloth.
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Abu Ma'mar (Abdullah bin Amr Muq'ad) told us that Abdul Warith (bin Sa'id) narrated to us that Ayyub told us. Ayyub narrated from Ikrimah, Ikrimah narrating from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), that the Prophet (saw) had himself cupped while he was fasting.
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Musaddad narrated to us that Sufyan (bin Uyainah) told us. He narrated from Amr (bin Dinar), Amr from Tawus and Ata' (bin Abi Rabah), both of them from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) had himself cupped while he (saw) was in the state of consecration (Ihram).
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Muhammad bin Muqatil narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) informed us that Humaid Tawil told us. Humaid narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra) that he was asked about the wages of the cupper (whether they are lawful or forbidden), and he said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) had himself cupped. Abu Taibah cupped him (saw), and he gave him two Sa' of grain, and interceded with his masters, so they reduced his levy. And he said: “The best treatment you use is cupping and the Qust of the Indian Sea (that is, costus).” And he said: “Do not torment your children by pressing their palate because of inflammation of the throat, and use costus.”
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Sa'id bin Talid narrated to us. He said that (Abdullah) bin Wahb told me. He said: Amr (bin Harith) and others told me that Bukair narrated to them that Asim bin Umar bin Qatadah told them that Hazrat Jabir bin Abdullah (Ansari) (ra) visited Muqanna' (bin Sinan) when he was ill. Then he said: I will not leave here until you have yourself cupped, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw); he (saw) used to say that there is healing in it too.
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Isma'il (bin Abi Uwais) narrated to us that Sulaiman (bin Bilal) told me. He narrated from Alqamah that he heard Abdur Rahman A'raj (saying) that he heard Hazrat Abdullah bin Buhainah (ra). He used to relate that the Messenger of Allah (saw) had himself cupped in the middle of his head at Lahy Jamal, which is on the road to Mecca, and he (saw) was at that time in the state of consecration (Ihram).
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