Abu Nu'aym's Hilyat al-Awliya', scan volume 7, p. 29 — medicine and the physician; drugs and pharmacy

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«… كانوايعملون، وما أنا بطارد المؤمنين ? فقلت : إما مثلى ومثلك كمثل الطبيب والصيد لالى فانا الطبيب وأنت الصيدلانى. • حدثنا سليمان بن أحمد ثنا أحمد بن سهل بن أيوب ثنا على بن بحر قال سمعت المؤمل بن إسماعيل يقول …»

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: Medicine· Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)

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Theriac and poisons (al-tiryaq wal-sumum)· Medical treatment (al-mu'alaja)· Sunan Abi Dawud 3871 — medicine and the physician; the drug· Sunan Abi Dawud 4513 — the Prophet's illness; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 4458 — medicine given by the mouth-side or the nose; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 5709 — medicine given by the mouth-side or the nose; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 5736 — ruqya recited over the sick; recovery from an ailment· Sahih al-Bukhari 6886 — medicine given by the mouth-side or the nose; illness and the sick

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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Theriac and poisons (al-tiryaq wal-sumum)

Ibn Sina gives the sixth fann of Book IV of the Canon to poisons, dividing them into those that act by a quality in them and those that act by their form and whole substance, and he sets out signs for recognising them and a rule for treating one who has been given poison. Book V opens its treatise on theriacs with the Faruq theriac, which he calls the most majestic and best of compound drugs, its original formula being Andromachus's. The hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim report the poisoned sheep given to the Prophet when Khaybar was conquered, and a report that begins 'whoever eats seven ajwa dates each morning'.