Collection: Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 24389

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: No spell is to be used except for the evil eye or a scorpion sting.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24390

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon Thabit ibn Qays. The version of Ahmad (ibn Salih) has: When he was ill He (the Prophet) said: Remove the harm, O Lord of men, from Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas. He then took some dust of Bathan, and put it in a bowel, and then mixed it […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24385

The man casting evil would be commanded to perform ablution, and then the man affected was washed with it.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24386

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Do not kill your children secretly, for the milk, with which a child is suckled while his mother is pregnant, overtakes the horseman and throws him from his horse.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24387

I intended to prohibit suckling during pregnancy (ghailah), but I considered the Greeks and the Persians and saw that they practiced it, without any injury being caused to their children thereby. Malik said : Ghailah means that a man has intercourse with a women while she is suckling a child.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24388

Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, told that Abdullah said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: spells, charms and love-potions are polytheism. I asked: Why do you say this? I swear by Allah, when my eye was discharging I used to go to so-and-so, the Jew, who applied a spell to me. […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24381

He who has a morning meal of seven ‘Ajwah dates will not suffer from any harm that day through poison or magic.

Sunan Abi Dawud 24382

I brought my son to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while I had compressed his uvula for its swelling. He said : Why do you afflict your children by squeezing for a swelling in the Uvula ? Apply this Indian aloes wood, for it contain seven types of remedies, among them being a remedy for […]

Sunan Abi Dawud 24383

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Wear your white garments, for they are among your best garments, and shroud your dead in them. Among the best types of collyrium you use is antimony (ithmid): it clears the vision and makes the hair sprout.