16. Medicines

This section draws entirely from Sahih al-Bukhari.

SB 70:545 - The Prophet said, “No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor hurt, nor distress befalls a Muslim, even if it were the prick he receives from a thorn, but that Allah expiates some of his sins for that.”

SB 70:546 - The Prophet said, “The example of a believer is that of a fresh tender plant, which the wind bends sometimes and other times make it straight. And the example of a non-believer is that of a pine tree which keeps straight till once it is uprooted suddenly.

SB 70:575 - The Prophet said, “None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say: “O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.' “

SB 71:582 - The Prophet said, “There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment.” {Maybe Allah should inform us about the treatments for cancer, HIV, and countless other diseases.}

SB 71:584 - The Prophet said, “Healing is in three things: A gulp of honey, cupping, and branding with fire (cauterizing). But I forbid my followers to use branding with fire.” {Apparently honey is a miracle healer as is cupping and cauterizing}

SB 71:588 - A man came to the Prophet and said, “My brother has some abdominal trouble.” The Prophet said to him “Let him drink honey.” The man came for the second time and the Prophet said to him, 'Let him drink honey.” He came for the third time and the Prophet said, “Let him drink honey.” He returned again and said, “I have done that.” The Prophet then said, “Allah has said the truth, but your brother's abdomen has told a lie. Let him drink honey.” So he made him drink honey and he was cured. {Apparently if you drink honey, on the fourth occasion you will be cured, prior to that your abdomen will be telling a lie.}

SB 71:591 - Aisha has narrated that she heard the Prophet say, “This black cumin is healing for all diseases except As-Sam.” Aisha said, “What is As-Sam?” He said, “Death.”

SB 71:592 - Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Apostle saying, “There is healing in black cumin for all diseases except death.”

SB 71:596 - I heard the Prophet saying, “Treat with the Indian incense, for it has healing for seven diseases; it is to be sniffed by one having throat trouble, and to be put into one side of the mouth of one suffering from pleurisy.” Once I went to Allah's Apostle with a son of mine who would not eat any food, and the boy passed urine on him whereupon he asked for some water and sprinkled it over the place of urine.

SB 71:599 - The Prophet said, “The best medicines you may treat yourselves with are cupping and sea incense.” He added, “You should not torture your children by treating tonsillitis by pressing the tonsils or the palate with the finger, but use incense.”

SB 71:604 - The Prophet came to me during the period of Al-Hudaibiya, while I was lighting fire underneath a cooking pot and lice were falling down my head. He said, “Do your lice hurt you?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Shave your head and fast for three days or feed six poor persons or slaughter a sheep as a sacrifice:” {When your child comes home from school with lice make sure you have a sheep handy, ready for sacrifice.}

SB 71:606: Allah's Apostle said, “Nations were displayed before me; one or two prophets would pass by along with a few followers. Then a big crowd of people passed in front of me and I asked, ‘Who are they?’” It was said, “It is Moses and his followers”. It was said to me, “Look at the horizon. Behold!” There was a multitude of people filling the horizon. Then it was said to me, “Look there and there about the stretching sky! Behold!” There was a multitude filling the horizon. It was said to me, “This is your nation out of whom seventy thousand shall enter Paradise.” Then the Prophet entered his house without telling his companions who the 70,000 were. So the people started talking about the issue and said, “It is we who have believed in Allah and followed His Apostle; therefore those people are either ourselves or our children who are born in the Islamic era.” When the Prophet heard of that, he came out and said. “Those people are those who do not treat themselves with Ruqya, nor do they believe in bad or good omen from birds nor do they get themselves cauterized but they put their trust only in their Lord “ {Muhammad has 70,000 followers going to paradise with him, the other prophets have a handful. Apparently Muhammad was not aware of the quantity of people on earth, probably believing 70,000 represented a sizeable proportion. Of the one billion Muslims today and the countless millions over the years it would appear that only a tiny fraction will be going to paradise.}

SB71:607 - The husband of a lady died and her eyes became sore. They asked the prophet whether it was permissible for her to use kohl as her eyes were exposed to danger. He said, “No, she should observe the prescribed period Idda (mourning) for four months and ten days.”

SB 71:608 - Allah's Apostle said, “No contagious disease is conveyed without Allah's permission and one should run away from the leper as one runs away from a lion ''

SB 71609 - I heard the Prophet saying, “Truffles are like Manna, they grow naturally without man's care and their water heals eye diseases.”

SB 71:614 - A man came to the prophet and said, “My brother has got loose motions (diarrhoea). The Prophet said, Let him drink honey.” The man again came and said, “I made him drink (honey) but that made him worse.” The Prophet said, “Allah has said the Truth, and the abdomen of your brother has told a lie.”

SB 71:619 - The Prophet said, “Fever is from the heat of Hell, so put it out with water.”

SB 71:627 - Allah's Apostle said, “Neither Ad-Dajjal (evil figure) nor plague will enter Medina.”

SB 71:629 - The Prophet said, “A Muslim who dies of an abdominal disease is a martyr, and he who dies of plague is a martyr.”

SB 71:634 - The Prophet ordered me to do Ruqya {reciting from Qur’an} if there was danger from an evil eye.

SB 71:637 - Aisha said, “The Prophet allowed the treatment of poisonous stings (from snake or scorpion) with Ruqya” {reciting from Qur’an}.

SB 71:639 - The Prophet used to treat some of his wives by passing his right hand over the place of ailment and used to say, “O Allah, the Lord of the people! Remove the trouble and heal the patient, for You are the Healer. No healing is of any avail but Yours; healing that will leave behind no ailment.” {No healing is of any value other than Allah’s.}

SB 71:640 - Allah's Apostle used to treat with a Ruqya saying, “O the Lord of the people! Remove the trouble. The cure is in Your Hands, and there is none except You who can remove disease.”

SB 71:641 - The Prophet used to say to the patient, “In the Name of Allah The earth of our land and the saliva of some of us cure our patient.”

SB 71:649 - Allah's Apostle said, “An evil omen may be in three (things) a woman, a house or an animal.”

SB 71:657 - Some people asked Allah's Apostle about the fortune-tellers. He said. “They are nothing.” They said, “O Allah's Apostle! Sometimes they tell us of a thing which turns out to be true.” Allah's Apostle said, “A Jinn snatches that true word and pours it into the ear of the fortune-teller. The fortune-teller then mixes with that word one hundred lies.”

SB 71:663 - The Prophet said, “If somebody takes some 'Ajwa dates every morning, he will not be affected by poison or magic on that day till night.”

SB 71:669 - When Khaibar was conquered, Allah's Apostle said, “Collect for me all the Jews present in this area.” Allah's Apostle then asked, “Who are the people of the Hell Fire?” They replied, “We will remain in the Fire for a while and then you Muslims will replace us in it.” Allah's Apostle said to them. “You will abide in it with ignominy. By Allah, we shall never replace you in it at all.”

SB 71:670 - The Prophet said, “Whoever purposely throws himself from a mountain and kills himself, will be in the (Hell) Fire falling down into it and abiding therein perpetually forever; and whoever drinks poison and kills himself with it, he will be carrying his poison in his hand and drinking it in the (Hell) Fire wherein he will abide eternally forever; and whoever kills himself with an iron weapon, will be carrying that weapon in his hand and stabbing his abdomen with it in the (Hell) Fire wherein he will abide eternally forever.” SB 71:673 - Allah's Apostle said, “If a fly falls in the vessel of any of you, let him dip all of it into the vessel and then throw it away, for in one of its wings there is a disease and in the other there is healing antidote for it.”