Abu Nu'aym's Hilyat al-Awliya', scan volume 2, p. 282 — ruqya recited over the sick

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«… قال ثنا أبوحرة قال ثنا محميد بن مديرين عن أبى سعيد الخدرى. أنه خرج فى سربة فأصابتهم مجاعة فأتوا على حى فأتتهم جارية فقالت : إن رجالنا خلوف وإن سيد الحي سليم فهل فيسكم من راق، هذهبت وقرأت عليه بأم …»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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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)

Sources

Abu Nu'aym Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah al-Isfahani (d. 430 AH), Hilyat al-Awliya' wa-Tabaqat al-Asfiya' — Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st edition 1409 AH/1988 CE

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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.