Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) 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 Messenger (ﷺ) 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.

We went out and Ghalib bin Abjar was accompanying us. He fell ill on the way and when we arrived
at Medina he was still sick. Ibn Abi ‘Atiq came to visit him and said to us, “Treat him with black
cumin. Take five or seven seeds and crush them (mix the powder with oil) and drop the resulting
mixture into both nostrils, for `Aisha has narrated to me that she heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, ‘This black
cumin is healing for all diseases except As-Sam.’ Aisha said, ‘What is As-Sam?’ He said, ‘Death.”

I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying, “There is healing in black cumin for all diseases except death.”

Aisha used to recommend at-Talbina for the sick and for such a person as grieved over a dead person.
She used to say, “I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) saying, ‘at-Talbina gives rest to the heart of the patient and
makes it active and relieves some of his sorrow and grief.’”

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, “My brother has some Abdominal trouble.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said to
him “Let him drink honey.” The man came for the second time and the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, ‘Let him
drink honey.” He came for the third time and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Let him drink honey.” He returned
again and said, “I have done that ‘ The Prophet (ﷺ) 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.

Some people were sick and they said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! Give us shelter and food. So when they
became healthy they said, “The weather of Medina is not suitable for us.” So he sent them to Al-Harra
with some she-camels of his and said, “Drink of their milk.” But when they became healthy, they
killed the shepherd of the Prophet (ﷺ) and drove away his camels. The Prophet (ﷺ) sent some people in their
pursuit. Then he got their hands and feet cut and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron. I
saw one of them licking the earth with his tongue till he died.

The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered them to follow his shepherd,
i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is
the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy. Then they killed the
shepherd and drove away the camels. When the news reached the Prophet (ﷺ) he sent some people in their
pursuit. When they were brought, he cut their hands and feet and their eyes were branded with heated
pieces of iron.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Healing is in three things: cupping, a gulp of honey or cauterization, (branding
with fire) but I forbid my followers to use cauterization (branding with fire).

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to like sweet edible things and honey.

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, “If there is any healing in your medicines, then it is in cupping, a gulp of
honey or branding with fire (cauterization) that suits the ailment, but I don’t like to be (cauterized)
branded with fire.”