Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa, scan volume 4, p. 215 — medicine and the physician; illness and the sick

صفة الصفوة لابن الجوزي، المجلد المصوَّر 4، ص 215 — الطب والطبيب، المرض والمريض

An excerpt from Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa, scan volume 4, p. 215, that mentions medicine and the physician, illness and the sick, pain, recovery from an ailment, the drug, the disease and its remedy; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… مثل المؤمن في الدنيا كمثل المريض معه طبيبه الذي يعلم داءه ودواءه فإذا اشتهى ما يضره منعه وقال: لا تقربه فإنك إن أتيته أهلكك. فلا يزال يمنعه حتى يبرأ من وجعه. وكذلك المؤمن يشتهي أشياء كثيرة مما قد فضل به …»

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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

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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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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'.