Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa, scan volume 1, p. 533 — honey as a remedy; medicine and the physician

صفة الصفوة لابن الجوزي، المجلد المصوَّر 1، ص 533 — التداوي بالعسل، الطب والطبيب

An excerpt from Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa, scan volume 1, p. 533, that mentions honey as a remedy, medicine and the physician, a complaint of an ailment, visiting the sick; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… ترك عبد شيئاً لله فوجد فقده. قال ابن سيرين: ولا أرى شريحاً حلف إلا على علم. عن الأعمش قال: اشتكى شريح رِجْلَه، فطلاها بالعسل، وجلس في الشمس، فدخل عليه عُوّاده فقالوا: كيف تجدك؟ قال: صالحاً. فقالوا: ألا أريتها الطبيب؟ فقال: …»

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

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Sifat al-Safwa — Ibn al-Jawzi (ed. Khalid Mustafa Tartusi, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, Beirut 1433/2012)

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Sunan Abi Dawud 1837 — cupping; pain

A report in Sunan Abi Dawud, no. 1837 (The Rites of Hajj (Kitab Al-Manasik Wa'l-Hajj)), that mentions cupping, pain. The Medicine Browser lists it with the texts on prophetic medicine, medicine, anatomy, surgery, drugs and treatment.