Yahya related to me from Malik that Muhammad ibn Abi
Umama ibn Sahl ibn Hunayf heard his father say, "My
father, Sahl ibn Hunayf did a ghusl at al-Kharrar. He
removed the jubbah he had on while Amir ibn Rabia was
watching, and Sahl was a man with beautiful white skin.
Amir said to him, 'I have never seen anything like what I
have seen today, not even the skin of a virgin.' Sahl fell
ill on the spot, and his condition grew worse. Somebody
went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, and told him that Sahl was ill, and could
not go with him. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, came to him, and Sahl told him
what had happened with Amir. The Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'Why does one
of you kill his brother? Why did you not say, "May Allah
bless you?" (ta baraka-llah) The evil eye is true. Do wudu
from it.' Amir did wudu from it and Sahl went with the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, and there was nothing wrong with him."
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab that Abu Umama ibn
Sahl ibn Hunayf said, ''Amir ibn Rabia saw Sahl ibn Hunayf
doing a ghusl and said, 'I have not seen the like of what
I see today, not even the skin of a maiden who has never
been out of doors.' Sahl fell to the ground. The Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was
approached and it was said, 'Messenger of Allah, can you
do anything about Sahl ibn Hunayf? By Allah, he can not
raise his head.' He said, 'Do you suspect anyone of it?'
They said, 'We suspect Amir ibn Rabia.' "
He continued, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, summoned Amir and was furious
with him and said, 'Why does one of you kill his brother?
Why did you not say, "May Allah bless you?" Do ghusl for
it.' Amir washed his face, hands, elbows, knees, the end
of his feet, and inside his lower garment in a vessel.
Then he poured it over him, and Sahl went off with the
people, and there was nothing wrong with him."
Yahya related to me from Malik that Humayd ibn Qays al-Makki
said, "A man came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, with the two sons of Jafar
ibn Abi Talib. He said to their nursemaid, 'Why do I see
them so thin?' Their nursemaid said, 'Messenger of Allah,
the evil eye goes quickly to them. Nothing stops us from
asking someone to make incantations (using ayats of Qur'an)
for them, except that we do not know what of that would
agree with you.' The Messenger of ,Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, 'Make incantations for
them. Had anything been able to precede the decree, the
evil eye would precede it.' "
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from
Sulayman ibn Yasar that Urwa ibn az-Zubayr told him that
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, entered the house of Umm Salama, the wife of the
Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. There
was a child weeping in the house, and they told him that
it was from the evil eye. Urwa said, "The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'Why
do you not find someone to make an incantation to protect
it from the evil eye?' "
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from
Ata ibn Yasar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "When the slave is ill,
Allah ta'ala sends two angels to him." He said, "They look
at what he says to his visitors. If he praises Allah and
lauds Him, when they come to him, they take that up to
Allah, the Mighty, the Majestic, and He knows best, and He
says, 'If I make my slave die, I will make him enter the
Garden. If I heal him, I will replace his flesh with
better flesh and his blood with better blood and I will
efface his evil actions.'"
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yazid ibn Khusayfa
that Urwa ibn az-Zubayr said that he heard A'isha, the
wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, say, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, 'When a mumin is afflicted by
something, even a thorn, it removes (or effaces) his wrong
actions.' " Yazid did not know which of them Urwa said.
Yahya related to me from Malik that Muhammad ibn
Abdullah ibn Abi Sasaca said that he heard Abu'l-Hubab
Said ibn Yasar say that he had heard Abu Hurayra say, "The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, 'Allah afflicts the one for whom He desires
good.'"
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that
death came to a man in the time of the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace. A man said, "He
was fortunate," as he had died without being tried by
illness. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, said, "Alas for you, what will let you
know that if Allah had tried him with illness, He would
have wiped out his wrong actions."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yazid ibn Khusayfa
that Amr ibn Abdullah ibn Kab as-Salami told him that Nafi
ibn Jubayr told him that Uthman ibn Abi al-As came to the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace. Uthman said that he had a pain which was enough to
kill him. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, said, "Rub it with your right hand seven
times and say, 'I take refuge with the might of Allah and
His power from the evil of what I feel.' "
Uthman added, "I said that, and Allah removed what I
had. I still command my family and others to say it."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from
Urwa ibn az-Zubayr from A'isha that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he
had a complaint, would recite the last three suras of
Qur'an, over himself and blow. She said, "When his pain
was great, I would recite it over him and wipe him with
his right hand hoping for its blessing."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from
Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq visited
A'isha while she had a [health] complaint and a jewish
woman was making incantation (ruqya) for her. Abu Bakr
said, "Do it (incantation) with the Book of Allah."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that
a man received a wound in the time of the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The blood
clotted in the wound and the man called two men from the
Banu Ammar tribe. They looked at it and claimed that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said to them, "Which of you is the better doctor?"
They said, "Is there any good in medicine, Messenger of
Allah?" Zayd claimed that the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The one who
sent down the disease sent down the remedy."
Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said
said, "I heard that Sad ibn Zurara cauterized himself
because of a pain in the throat accompanied by blood and
he died."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa
from Fatima bint al-Mundhir that whenever a woman who had
a fever, was brought to Asma bint Abi Bakr, she made dua
for her and took water and poured it inside her collar.
She said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, ordered us to cool it with water."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa
from his father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, "Fever is from the
vehemence of the heat of Jahannam, so cool it with water."
Malik related to me from Nafi from Ibn Umar that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "Fever is from the vehemence of the heat of
Jahannam, so put it out with water."
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard from
Jabir ibn Abdullah that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, "When a man visits an
invalid, he plunges into mercy to the extent that when he
sits with him, it settles in him," or the like of that.
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard from
Bukayr ibn Abdullah ibn al-Ashajj from Ibn Atiya that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "There is no contagion, no hama and no
serpent in a hungry belly. However, the possessor of sick
livestock must not stop at the same place as the possessor
of healthy livestock, but the possessor of healthy
livestock may stop wherever he wishes."
They said, "Messenger of Allah, Why is that?" The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "It is harmful."