Muwatta Malik: Chapter 50

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 Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar
cauterized for the palsy and he had a talisman made for a scorpion
sting.

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."