Ibn Hajar's al-Isaba, scan volume 2, p. 1764 — ruqya recited over the sick

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«… أبو عمر : له ولأبيه صحبة، وقال أيضاً ولد على كان بالمدينة رجل يكنى أبا مذكر يرقي من العقرب فينفع عهد النَّبي وَلا خِ. اللّٰه بذلك، فقال النَّبي في يَا أَبَا مذكر ما رُقْيتُك هَذِهِ؟ وقال الواقدي: خرج أبو مرة، …»

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

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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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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.