Medicine, Health & Evil Eye

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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 angels: When he cauterized, it stopped. When he abandoned,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

The Prophet (ﷺ) cauterized Sa’d b. Mu’adh from the wound of an arrow.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) snuffed medicine.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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 peculiar to the Prophet...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited unclean medicine.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

When a physician consulted the Prophet (ﷺ) about putting frogs in medicine, he forbade him to kill them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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 is a medicine. The Prophet...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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 suffering from...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

The evil is genuine.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

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