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Family, marriage and kinship Muslim minorities under non-Muslim rule Health, body and death

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Format: Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released: 2017 CE · 1438 AH†
Countries: US
Languages: en (original) · ur (original)
Approach: comedy
Depiction of sacred figures: The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable
Titles in other languages: The Big Sickالمرض الكبير

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

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Features: Zoe Kazan· Holly Hunter· Ray Romano· Kumail Nanjiani· Adeel Akhtar· Anupam Kher· Bo Burnham· Linda Emond
Directed by: Michael Showalter
Written by: Kumail Nanjiani· Emily V. Gordon

People and things also explored

The dosing of the Prophet during his illness· Brick Lane· Garm Hava· Not Without My Daughter· Mo· Ramy· Taj Mahal· The Arabs and their peoples before Islam

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islam.museum contributors. “The Big Sick”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/al-marad-al-kabir-2017/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The dosing of the Prophet during his illness

During the Prophet's illness, a group of his wives and some Muslim women, among them Asma' bint Umays, gathered with al-Abbas present and agreed to dose him; al-Abbas said 'I will dose him'; they did; when he came round he asked who had done it, was told it was his uncle, and said this was a medicine brought by women from the direction of Abyssinia; his uncle said they feared pleurisy; he said that was a disease God would not bring on him, and that everyone in the house should be dosed except his uncle, so Maymuna, who was fasting, was dosed as a punishment for what they had done.