The Book of Patients
بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي كَفَّارَةِ الْمَرَضِ:
(1) Chapter. The saying that sickness is expiation for sins.
2بَابُ شِدَّةِ الْمَرَضِ:
(2) Chapter. The severity of disease.
3بَابُ أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ بَلاَءً الأَنْبِيَاءُ ثُمَّ الأَوَّلُ فَالأَوَّلُ:
(3) Chapter. The people most prone to trials are Prophets, and then the most pious people, and then the less pious and so on.
4بَابُ وُجُوبِ عِيَادَةِ الْمَرِيضِ:
(4) Chapter. It is compulsory to visit the sick.
5بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الْمُغْمَى عَلَيْهِ:
(5) Chapter. To visit an unconscious person.
6بَابُ فَضْلِ مَنْ يُصْرَعُ مِنَ الرِّيحِ:
(6) Chapter. The superiority of a person who is suffering from epilepsy.
7بَابُ فَضْلِ مَنْ ذَهَبَ بَصَرُهُ:
(7) Chapter. The superiority of a person who has lost his sight.
8بَابُ عِيَادَةِ النِّسَاءِ الرِّجَالَ:
(8) Chapter. The visiting of sick men by women.
9بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الصِّبْيَانِ:
(9) Chapter. To visit sick children.
10بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الأَعْرَابِ:
(10) Chapter. To visit a (sick) bedouin.
11بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الْمُشْرِكِ:
(11) Chapter. To visit a (sick) Mushrik.
12بَابُ إِذَا عَادَ مَرِيضًا فَحَضَرَتِ الصَّلاَةُ فَصَلَّى بِهِمْ جَمَاعَةً:
(12) Chapter. If one visited a patient and when the time of the Salat (prayer) became due, he led the people present there, in a congregational Salat (prayer).
13بَابُ وَضْعِ الْيَدِ عَلَى الْمَرِيضِ:
(13) Chapter. Placing the hand on the patient.
14بَابُ مَا يُقَالُ لِلْمَرِيضِ وَمَا يُجِيبُ:
(14) Chapter. What (a visitor) should say to a patient and what should be the answer of the patient.
15بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الْمَرِيضِ رَاكِبًا وَمَاشِيًا وَرِدْفًا عَلَى الْحِمَارِ:
(15) Chapter. To visit a patient riding, walking or sitting with another person on a donkey.
16بَابُ مَا رُخِّصَ لِلْمَرِيضِ أَنْ يَقُولَ إِنِّي وَجِعٌ، أَوْ وَارَأْسَاهْ، أَوِ اشْتَدَّ بِي الْوَجَعُ:
(16) Chapter. It is permissible for a patient to say: “I am sick,” or “Oh, my head!” or “My ailment has been aggravated.”
17بَابُ قَوْلِ الْمَرِيضِ قُومُوا عَنِّي:
(17) Chapter. The saying of the patient: “Get up from me!”
18بَابُ مَنْ ذَهَبَ بِالصَّبِيِّ الْمَرِيضِ لِيُدْعَى لَهُ:
(18) Chapter. Whoever took the sick boy (to someone) to invoke Allah for him.
19بَابُ تَمَنِّي الْمَرِيضِ الْمَوْتَ:
(19) Chapter. The patient’s wish for death.
20بَابُ دُعَاءِ الْعَائِدِ لِلْمَرِيضِ:
(20) Chapter. The invocation for the patient by the one who pays a visit to him.
21بَابُ وُضُوءِ الْعَائِدِ لِلْمَرِيضِ:
(21) Chapter. The performing of ablution by a person who pays a visit to a patient.
22بَابُ مَنْ دَعَا بِرَفْعِ الْوَبَاءِ وَالْحُمَّى:
(22) Chapter. Whoever invoke Allah to remove epidemics and fever.
