Volume 7, Book 70, Number 574:
Narrated As-Sa’ib:
My aunt took me to Allah’s Apostle and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! My nephew is- ill.” The Prophet
touched my head with his hand and invoked Allah to bless me. He then performed ablution and I
drank of the remaining water of his ablution and then stood behind his back and saw “Khatam An-
Nubuwwa” (The Seal of Prophethood) between his shoulders like a button of a tent.
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Volume 7, Book 70, Number 575:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he
has to wish for death, he should say: “O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let
me die if death is better for me.’ “
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 576:
Narrated Qais bin Abi Hazim:
We went to pay a visit to Khabbab (who was sick) and he had been branded (cauterized) at seven
places in his body. He said, “Our companions who died (during the lifetime of the Prophet) left (this
world) without having their rewards reduced through enjoying the pleasures of this life, but we
have got (so much) wealth that we find no way to spend It except on the construction of buildings
Had the Prophet not forbidden us to wish for death, I would have wished for it.’ We visited him for
the second time while he was building a wall. He said, A Muslim is rewarded (in the Hereafter) for
whatever he spends except for something that he spends on building.”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 577:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “The good deeds of any person will not make him enter Paradise.”
(i.e., None can enter Paradise through his good deeds.) They (the Prophet’s companions) said, ‘Not
even you, O Allah’s Apostle?’ He said, “Not even myself, unless Allah bestows His favor and mercy on
me.” So be moderate in your religious deeds and do the deeds that are within your ability: and none
of you should wish for death, for if he is a good doer, he may increase his good deeds, and if he is an
evil doer, he may repent to Allah.”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 578:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
I heard the Prophet , who was resting against me, saying, “O Allah! Excuse me and bestow Your
Mercy on me and let me join with the highest companions (in Paradise).” See Qur’an (4.69)
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 579:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
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Whenever Allah’s Apostle paid a visit to a patient, or a patient was brought to him, he used to in –
voke Allah, saying, “Take away the disease, O the Lord of the people! Cure him as You are the One
Who cures. There is no cure but Yours, a cure that leaves no disease.”
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 580:
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah:
The Prophet came to me while I was ill. He performed ablution and threw the remaining water on
me (or said, “Pour it on him) ” When I came to my senses I said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I have no son or
father to be my heir, so how will be my inheritance?” Then the Verse of inheritance was revealed.
Volume 7, Book 70, Number 581:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When Allah’s Apostle emigrated to Medina, Abu Bakr and Bilal had a fever. I entered upon them
and said, “O my father! How are you? O Bilal! How are you?” Whenever Abu Bakr got the fever he
used to say, “Everybody is staying alive with his people, yet death is nearer to him than his shoe
laces.” And when fever deserted Bilal, he would recite (two poetic verses): “Would that I could stay
overnight in a valley wherein I would be surrounded by Idhkhir and Jalil (two kinds of good
smelling grass). Would that one day I could drink of the water of Majinna, and would that Shama
and Tafil (two mountains at Mecca) would appear to me!” I went to Allah’s Apostle and informed
him about that. He said, “O Allah! Make us love Medina as much or more than we love Mecca, and
make it healthy, and bless its Sa and its Mudd, and take away its fever and put it in Al-Juhfa.” (See
Hadith No 558) .
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Book 71: Medicine