Medicine, Health & Evil Eye

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“I heard Sa’eed bin Zaid bin ‘Amr bin Nufail narrating from the Prophet (ﷺ) that: ‘Truffles are a type of manna that Allah sent down to the Children of Israel, and their water is a healing for eye (diseases).’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“We used to narrate from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and mention truffles, and they said: ‘(It is) the smallpox of the earth.’ When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was told of what they were saying: he said: ‘Truffles are...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “Ajwah and the rock* are from Paradise.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“I heard Abu Ubayy bin Umm Haram, who had prayed with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) facing both the Qiblah, saying: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “You should use senna and the Sannut, for in them there...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Prophet (ﷺ) set out in the early morning and I did likewise. I prayed, then I sat. The Prophet (ﷺ) turned to me and said: ‘Do you have a stomach problem?’* I said: ‘Yes, O Messenger of Allah.’ He...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade treating illness with foul things (Khabith), meaning poison.”*

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“Whoever drinks poison and kills himself, will be sipping it in the fire of Hell forever and ever.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: ‘What do you use as a laxative?’ I said: ‘The Shubrum (spurge – Euphorb).’ He said: (It is) hot and powerful.’ Then I used senna as a laxative and he said: ‘If...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“I brought a son of mine to the Prophet (ﷺ), and I had pressed on an area of his throat due to tonsillitis. He said: ‘Why do you poke your children with this pressing?’ You should use this aloeswood, for...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: ‘The cure for sciatica is the fat from the tail of a Bedouin sheep (or wild sheep), which should be melted and divided into three parts, one part to be taken each...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was wounded on the Day of Uhud. His molar was broken and his helmet was crushed on his head. Fatimah was washing the blood from him and ‘Ali was pouring water on him from a...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“On the Day of Uhud, I recognized the one who wounded the face of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), the one who was washing the blood from the face of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and treating him, and the...

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Whoever gives medical treatment, with no prior knowledge of medicine, is responsible (for any harm done).’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prescribed Wars (memecyclon tinctorium), Indian aloeswood and olive oil for pleurisy, to be administered through the side of the mouth.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘You should use Indian aloeswood for it contains seven cures, including (a cure for) pleurisy.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“Mention of fever was made in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and a man cursed it. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘Do not curse it, for it erases sin as fire removes filth from iron.’”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“Be of good cheer, for Allah says: ‘It is My fire which I have causes to overwhelm My believing slave in this world, to be his share of the Fire in the Hereafter.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“Fever is from the heat of the Hell-fire, so cool it down with water.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“Intense fever is from the heat of Hell-fire, so cool it down with water.”

Sunan Ibn Majah

Chapters on Medicine

“I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: ‘Fever is from the heat of the Hell-fire, so cool it down with water.’ He entered upon a son of ‘Ammar and said: ‘Take away the harm, O Lord of mankind, O God of...