al-Kandahlawi's Hayat al-Sahaba, scan volume 1, p. 57 — cautery; ruqya recited over the sick

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«… مِنَ الْأَوَّلِيْنَ وَ ثُلَةٌ مِنَ الأُخِرِيْنَ - قال فقلنا يننا: من هؤلاء السبعون الفا؟ فقلنا : هم الذين ولدوا فى الإسلام ولم يشركوا، قال: فبلغه ذلك فقال: بل هم الذين لا يكتوون ولا يسترقون ولا يتطيرون وعلى ربهم يتوكلون. وكذا …»

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Mentions: Prophetic medicine (al-tibb al-nabawi)

People and things also explored

Black seed (al-habba al-sawda)· Fever (al-humma)· Ithmid and kohl (al-ithmid wa-l-kuhl)· Desert truffle (al-kam'a)· Cautery (al-kayy)· Ladud and sa'ut (oral and nasal drops)· Indian and marine costus (al-qust al-hindi, al-qust al-bahri)· Senna and sannut (al-sana wa-l-sannut)

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Hayat al-Sahaba — Muhammad Yusuf al-Kandahlawi (Dar al-Sabbani)

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Black seed (al-habba al-sawda)

The black seed is the subject of a report in both Sahih collections in which the Prophet says 'in the black seed is a cure for every disease except al-sam', and al-sam is death. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya says it is the shuniz and counts the views that make it mustard or the fruit of the terebinth a mistake; he reads 'every disease' as a general expression meant in a particular sense, every disease that admits it, and holds it beneficial for the cold diseases.