Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

Book 29 of 43 · Sunan Abi Dawud

49 hadith Hadith 3855–3903 Sunni
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Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

Sunan Abi Dawud

49 hadith Hadith 3855–3903 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 833–888 CE period by al-Sijistani.

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb) is book 29 of 43 in Sunan Abi Dawud, containing 49 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Basra (later life). The narrators in this book are associated with 22 distinct geographic locations.

Baghdad Basri Iraq Medina Basra Makkah Damascus Hims Kufa al-Halb Wasit Bukhara Yemen Cairo Sana Basrah Hamadan al-Ramla Asbahan Bulkh Nisa al-Ray

Narrators in This Book

This book features 156 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Abu Hurairah, Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل, Musa bin Isma'il al-Munqari al-Tabudhaki موسى بن إسماعيل المنقري - لتبوذكي, Hammad bin Zayd حماد بن زيد بن درهم الأزدي الأزرق, Amir al-Sha'bi عامر الشعبي.

Hadith in This Book 49 hadith

1 3855 Sahih
I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and his Companions were sitting as if they had birds on their heads. I saluted and sat down. The desert Arabs then came from here and there. They asked:…
2 3856 Hasan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit me, accompanied by Ali who was convalescing. We had some ripe dates hung up. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got up and began to eat from them.…
3 3857 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The best medical treatment you apply is cupping.
4 3858 Hasan
the maid-servant of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), said: No one complained to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) of a headache but he told him to get himself cupped, or of a pain in his legs…
5 3859 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to have himself cupped on the top of his head and between his shoulders, and that he used to say: If anyone pours out any of his blood, he will not…
6 3860 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) had himself cupped three times in the veins at the sides of the neck and on the shoulder. Ma'mar said: I got myself cupped, and I lost my memory so much so that I…
7 3861 Hasan
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone has himself cupped on the 17th, 19th and 21st it will be a remedy for every disease.
8 3862 Daif
(the narrator other than Musa said that Kayyisah daughter of AbuBakrah) She said that her father used to forbid his family to have themselves cupped on a Tuesday, and used to…
9 3863 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had himself cupped above the thigh for a contusion from which he suffered.
10 3864 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) sent a physician to Ubayy (ibn Ka'b), and he cut his vein.
11 3865 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade to cauterise; we cauterised but they (cauterisation) did not benefit us, nor proved useful for us. Abu Dawud said: He used to hear the salutation of the…
12 3866 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) cauterized Sa’d b. Mu’adh from the wound of an arrow.
13 3867 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) snuffed medicine.
14 3868 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked about a charm for one who is possessed (nashrah). He replied: It pertains to the work of the devil.
15 3869 Daif
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If I drink an antidote, or tie an amulet, or compose poetry, I am the type who does not care what he does. Abu Dawud said: THis was…
16 3870 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited unclean medicine.
17 3871 Sahih
When a physician consulted the Prophet (ﷺ) about putting frogs in medicine, he forbade him to kill them.
18 3872 Sahih
If anyone drinks poison, the poison will be in his hand (on the Day of Judgement) and he will drink it in Hell-fire and he will live in it eternally.
19 3873 Sahih
Wa'il said: Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about wine, but he forbade it. He again asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him: Prophet of Allah, it…
20 3874 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for every disease, so treat yourselves medically, but use nothing unlawful.
21 3875 Daif
I suffered from an illness. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to pay a visit to me. He put his hands between my nipples and I felt its coolness at my heart. He said: You are a man…
22 3876 Sahih
He who has a morning meal of seven ‘Ajwah dates will not suffer from any harm that day through poison or magic.
23 3877 Sahih
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…
24 3878 Sahih
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…
25 3879 Sahih Mutawatir
The evil is genuine.
26 3880 Sahih Isnaad
The man casting evil would be commanded to perform ablution, and then the man affected was washed with it.
27 3881 Daif
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…
28 3882 Sahih
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…
29 3883 Sahih
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…
30 3884 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: No spell is to be used except for the evil eye or a scorpion sting.
31 3885 Daif Isnaad
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…
32 3886 Sahih
In the pre-Islamic period we used to apply spells and we asked: Messenger of Allah ! how do you look upon it ? He replied : Submit your spells to me. There is no harm in spells so…
33 3887 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered when I was with Hafsah, and he said to me: Why do you not teach this one the spell for skin eruptions as you taught her writing.
34 3888 Daif Isnaad
I passed by a river. I entered it and took a bath in it. When I came out, I had fever. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was informed about it. He said: Ask AbuThabit to seek refuge in…
35 3889 Daif
No spell is to be used except for the evil eye, or sting of poisonous insects, or bleeding. The narrator al-‘Abhas did mention the words “evil eye”. The is the version of…
36 3890 Sahih
Should I not use the spell of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for you ? He said : Yes. He then said : O Allah, Lord of men, Remover of the harm, heal, Thou art the healer. There is no…
37 3891 Sahih
I had a pain which was about to destroy me. So the Prophet (ﷺ) said : Wipe it with your right hand seven times and say : “I seek refuge in the dominance of Allah, and His might…
38 3892 Daif
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If any of you is suffering from anything or his brother is suffering, he should say: Our Lord is Allah Who is in the heaven, holy is Thy…
39 3893 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sued to teach them the following words in the case of alarm: I seek refuge in Allah's perfect words from His anger, the evil of His servants, the evil…
40 3894 Sahih
I saw a sign of injury in the shin of Salamah. I asked : What is this ? He replied : I was afflicted. I was afflicted by it on the day of Khaibar. The people said : Salamah has…
41 3895 Sahih
When a man complained of pain the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him pointing to his saliva and mixing it with dust :(This is) the dust of our earth, mixed with saliva of us, so that our…
42 3896 Sahih
Alaqah came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and embraced Islam. He then came back from him and passed some people who had a lunatic fettered in chains. His people said: We…
43 3897 Sahih
He recited Surat al-Fatihah over him for three days morning and evening. Whenever he finished it, he collected some of his saliva and spat it out, and he seemed as if he were set…
44 3898 Sahih
A man from Aslam tribe said: I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). A man from among his Companions came and said: Messenger of Allah! I have been stung last night, and I…
45 3899 Daif Isnaad
A man who was stung by a scorpion was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: Had he said the word: "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He created, "he…
46 3900 Sahih
Some of the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) went on a journey. They alighted with a certain clan of the Arabs. Someone of them said : Our chief has been stung by a scorpion or…
47 3901 Sahih
We proceeded from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and came to a clan of the Arabs. They said: We have been told that you have brought what is good from this man. Have you any…
48 3902 Sahih
the wife of Prophet (ﷺ) said: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) suffered from some pain, he recited mu'awwadhat in his heart and blew (them over him). When the pain became severe, I…
49 3903 Sahih
My mother intended to make me gain weight to send me to the (house of) the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). But nothing which she desired benefited me till she gave me cucumber with fresh…