Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

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

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

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

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

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

The evil is genuine.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited unclean medicine.