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Sunan Abi Dawud

Chapter 29 Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb) • 49 Hadiths 544

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Narrated Usamah ibn Sharik: I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and his Companions were sitting as if they had birds on their heads. I saluted and sat down. The desert Arabs then came from here and there. They asked: Messenger of Allah, should we make use of m...

Narrated Umm al-Mundhar bint Qays al-Ansariyyah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit me, accompanied by Ali who was convalescing. We had some ripe dates hung up. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got up and began to eat from them. Ali also got up to ea...

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The best medical treatment you apply is cupping...

Narrated Salmah: the maid-servant of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), said: No one complained to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) of a headache but he told him to get himself cupped, or of a pain in his legs but he told him to dye them with henna...

Narrated Abu Kabshah al-Ansari: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to have himself cupped on the top of his head and between his shoulders, and that he used to say: If anyone pours out any of his blood, he will not suffer if he applies no medical treatm...

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (ﷺ) had himself cupped three times in the veins at the sides of the neck and on the shoulder. Ma'mar said: I got myself cupped, and I lost my memory so much so that I was instructed Surat al-Fatihah by others in m...

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone has himself cupped on the 17th, 19th and 21st it will be a remedy for every disease...

Narrated Kabshah daughter of AbuBakrah: (the narrator other than Musa said that Kayyisah daughter of AbuBakrah) She said that her father used to forbid his family to have themselves cupped on a Tuesday, and used to assert on the authority of the Mess...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had himself cupped above the thigh for a contusion from which he suffered...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet (ﷺ) sent a physician to Ubayy (ibn Ka'b), and he cut his vein...

Narrated Imran ibn Husayn: 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 h...

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

Ibn’Abbas said:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) snuffed medicine...

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: 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...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: 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 (ﷺ), but some pe...

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited unclean medicine...

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

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: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...

Narrated Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq: 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 Proph...

Narrated Abu al-Darda: 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...

Narrated Sa'd: 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 heart sickness. Go to al-Harith ibn Kalada...

Sa’d b. Abl Waqqas reported the prophet (ﷺ) as saying:He who has a morning meal of seven ‘Ajwah dates will not suffer from any harm that day through poison or magic...

Umm Qasis, daughter of Mihsan said :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 aloes wood, ...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: 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 ...

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying :The evil is genuine...

Sahih Mutawatir Sahih Mutawatir

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The man casting evil would be commanded to perform ablution, and then the man affected was washed with it...

Sahih Isnaad Sahih Isnaad

Narrated Asma', daughter of Yazid ibn as-Sakan,: 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 hi...

Judamat al-Asadiyyah said that she heard the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) Say: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 be...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: 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...

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

Narrated Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon Thabit ibn Qays. The version of Ahmad (ibn Salih) has: When he was ill He (the Prophet) said: Remove the harm, O Lord of men, from Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas. He then took...

Daif Isnaad Daif Isnaad

‘Awf b. Malik said :In the pre-Islamic period we used to apply spells and we asked: Messenger of Allah ! how do you look upon it ? He replied : Submit your spells to me. There is no harm in spells so long as they involve no polytheism...

Narrated Ash-Shifa', daughter of Abdullah,: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered when I was with Hafsah, and he said to me: Why do you not teach this one the spell for skin eruptions as you taught her writing...

Narrated Sahl ibn Hunayf: I passed by a river. I entered it and took a bath in it. When I came out, I had fever. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was informed about it. He said: Ask AbuThabit to seek refuge in Allah from that I asked: O my Lord, will the s...

Daif Isnaad Daif Isnaad

Anas reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying :No spell is to be used except for the evil eye, or sting of poisonous insects, or bleeding. The narrator al-‘Abhas did mention the words “evil eye”. The is the version of Sulaiman b. Dawud...

Anas said to Thabit :Should I not use the spell of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for you ? He said : Yes. He then said : O Allah, Lord of men, Remover of the harm, heal, Thou art the healer. There is no healer but Thou; given him a remedy which leaves n...

‘Uthman b. Abl al-As said that he came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). ‘Uthman said :I had a pain which was about to destroy me. So the Prophet (ﷺ) said : Wipe it with your right hand seven times and say : “I seek refuge in the dominance of Allah, and...

Narrated AbudDarda': I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If any of you is suffering from anything or his brother is suffering, he should say: Our Lord is Allah Who is in the heaven, holy is Thy name, Thy command reigns supreme in the heaven and t...

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sued to teach them the following words in the case of alarm: I seek refuge in Allah's perfect words from His anger, the evil of His servants, the evil suggestions of the devils and thei...

Yazid b. Abi ‘Ubaid said :I saw a sign of injury in the shin of Salamah. I asked : What is this ? He replied : I was afflicted. I was afflicted by it on the day of Khaibar. The people said : Salamah has been afflicted. I was then brought to the Proph...

‘A’ishah said :When a man complained of pain the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him pointing to his saliva and mixing it with dust :(This is) the dust of our earth, mixed with saliva of us, so that our sick is remedied with the permission of our lord...

Narrated Alaqah ibn Sahar at-Tamimi: Alaqah came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and embraced Islam. He then came back from him and passed some people who had a lunatic fettered in chains. His people said: We are told that your companion has brought so...

Kharijah b. al-Salt quoted his parental uncle as saying that he passed (some people) :He recited Surat al-Fatihah over him for three days morning and evening. Whenever he finished it, he collected some of his saliva and spat it out, and he seemed as ...

Narrated AbuSalih Zakwan as-Samman: A man from Aslam tribe said: I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). A man from among his Companions came and said: Messenger of Allah! I have been stung last night, and I could not sleep till morning. He as...

Narrated AbuHurayrah: A man who was stung by a scorpion was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: Had he said the word: "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He created, "he would not have been stung, or he said, "It would...

Daif Isnaad Daif Isnaad

Abu Sa’d al-KHudri said :Some of the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) went on a journey. They alighted with a certain clan of the Arabs. Someone of them said : Our chief has been stung by a scorpion or bitten by a snake. Has any of you something which g...

Narrated Alaqah ibn Sahar at-Tamimi: We proceeded from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and came to a clan of the Arabs. They said: We have been told that you have brought what is good from this man. Have you any medicine or a charm, for we have a lunatic ...

Narrated A'ishah:the wife of Prophet (ﷺ) said: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) suffered from some pain, he recited mu'awwadhat in his heart and blew (them over him). When the pain became severe, I recited (them) over him and wiped him with his hand i...

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: My mother intended to make me gain weight to send me to the (house of) the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). But nothing which she desired benefited me till she gave me cucumber with fresh dates to eat. Then I gained as much wei...

Chapters & Sections

Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)

Hadith #1 — 390

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat)

Hadith #391 — 1160

The Book Of The Prayer For Rain (Kitab al-Istisqa')

Hadith #1161 — 1197

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Rules of Law about the Prayer during Journey

Hadith #1198 — 1249

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Voluntary Prayers

Hadith #1250 — 1370

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Ramadan

Hadith #1371 — 1400

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Prostration while reciting the Qur'an

Hadith #1401 — 1415

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Hadith #1416 — 1555

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Hadith #1556 — 1700

The Book of Lost and Found Items

Hadith #1701 — 1720

The Rites of Hajj (Kitab Al-Manasik Wa'l-Hajj)

Hadith #1721 — 2045

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Hadith #2046 — 2174

Divorce (Kitab Al-Talaq)

Hadith #2175 — 2312

Fasting (Kitab Al-Siyam)

Hadith #2313 — 2476

Jihad (Kitab Al-Jihad)

Hadith #2477 — 2787

Sacrifice (Kitab Al-Dahaya)

Hadith #2788 — 2843

Game (Kitab Al-Said)

Hadith #2844 — 2861

Wills (Kitab Al-Wasaya)

Hadith #2862 — 2884

Shares of Inheritance (Kitab Al-Fara'id)

Hadith #2885 — 2927

Tribute, Spoils, and Rulership (Kitab Al-Kharaj, Wal-Fai' Wal-Imarah)

Hadith #2928 — 3088

Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

Hadith #3089 — 3241

Oaths and Vows (Kitab Al-Aiman Wa Al-Nudhur)

Hadith #3242 — 3325

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

Hadith #3326 — 3415

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

Hadith #3416 — 3570

The Office of the Judge (Kitab Al-Aqdiyah)

Hadith #3571 — 3640

Knowledge (Kitab Al-Ilm)

Hadith #3641 — 3668

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Hadith #3669 — 3735

Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah)

Hadith #3736 — 3854

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Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

Hadith #3855 — 3903

Divination and Omens (Kitab Al-Kahanah Wa Al-Tatayyur)

Hadith #3904 — 3925

The Book of Manumission of Slaves

Hadith #3926 — 3968

Dialects and Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab Al-Huruf Wa Al-Qira'at)

Hadith #3969 — 4008

Hot Baths (Kitab Al-Hammam)

Hadith #4009 — 4019

Clothing (Kitab Al-Libas)

Hadith #4020 — 4158

Combing the Hair (Kitab Al-Tarajjul)

Hadith #4159 — 4213

Signet-Rings (Kitab Al-Khatam)

Hadith #4214 — 4239

Trials and Fierce Battles (Kitab Al-Fitan Wa Al-Malahim)

Hadith #4240 — 4278

The Promised Deliverer (Kitab Al-Mahdi)

Hadith #4279 — 4290

Battles (Kitab Al-Malahim)

Hadith #4291 — 4350

Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)

Hadith #4351 — 4493

Types of Blood-Wit (Kitab Al-Diyat)

Hadith #4494 — 4595

Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)

Hadith #4596 — 4772

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Hadith #4773 — 5274

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