The Book of Patients

1 بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي كَفَّارَةِ الْمَرَضِ:

Chapter. The saying that sickness is expiation for sins.

7 hadith (5640 — 5645)

2 بَابُ شِدَّةِ الْمَرَضِ:

Chapter. The severity of disease.

2 hadith (5646 — 5647)

3 بَابُ أَشَدُّ النَّاسِ بَلاَءً الأَنْبِيَاءُ ثُمَّ الأَوَّلُ فَالأَوَّلُ:

Chapter. The people most prone to trials are Prophets, and then the most pious people, and then the less pious and so on.

1 hadith (5648 — 5648)

4 بَابُ وُجُوبِ عِيَادَةِ الْمَرِيضِ:

Chapter. It is compulsory to visit the sick.

2 hadith (5649 — 5650)

5 بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الْمُغْمَى عَلَيْهِ:

Chapter. To visit an unconscious person.

1 hadith (5651 — 5651)

6 بَابُ فَضْلِ مَنْ يُصْرَعُ مِنَ الرِّيحِ:

Chapter. The superiority of a person who is suffering from epilepsy.

2 hadith (5652 — 5652)

7 بَابُ فَضْلِ مَنْ ذَهَبَ بَصَرُهُ:

Chapter. The superiority of a person who has lost his sight.

1 hadith (5653 — 5653)

8 بَابُ عِيَادَةِ النِّسَاءِ الرِّجَالَ:

Chapter. The visiting of sick men by women.

2 hadith (5654 — 5654)

9 بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الصِّبْيَانِ:

Chapter. To visit sick children.

1 hadith (5655 — 5655)

10 بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الأَعْرَابِ:

Chapter. To visit a (sick) bedouin.

1 hadith (5656 — 5656)

11 بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الْمُشْرِكِ:

Chapter. To visit a (sick) Mushrik.

1 hadith (5657 — 5657)

12 بَابُ إِذَا عَادَ مَرِيضًا فَحَضَرَتِ الصَّلاَةُ فَصَلَّى بِهِمْ جَمَاعَةً:

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).

1 hadith (5658 — 5658)

13 بَابُ وَضْعِ الْيَدِ عَلَى الْمَرِيضِ:

Chapter. Placing the hand on the patient.

2 hadith (5659 — 5660)

14 بَابُ مَا يُقَالُ لِلْمَرِيضِ وَمَا يُجِيبُ:

Chapter. What (a visitor) should say to a patient and what should be the answer of the patient.

2 hadith (5661 — 5662)

15 بَابُ عِيَادَةِ الْمَرِيضِ رَاكِبًا وَمَاشِيًا وَرِدْفًا عَلَى الْحِمَارِ:

Chapter. To visit a patient riding, walking or sitting with another person on a donkey.

2 hadith (5663 — 5664)

16 بَابُ مَا رُخِّصَ لِلْمَرِيضِ أَنْ يَقُولَ إِنِّي وَجِعٌ، أَوْ وَارَأْسَاهْ، أَوِ اشْتَدَّ بِي الْوَجَعُ:

Chapter. It is permissible for a patient to say: “I am sick,” or “Oh, my head!” or “My ailment has been aggravated.”

5 hadith (5665 — 5668)

17 بَابُ قَوْلِ الْمَرِيضِ قُومُوا عَنِّي:

Chapter. The saying of the patient: “Get up from me!”

1 hadith (5669 — 5669)

18 بَابُ مَنْ ذَهَبَ بِالصَّبِيِّ الْمَرِيضِ لِيُدْعَى لَهُ:

Chapter. Whoever took the sick boy (to someone) to invoke Allah for him.

1 hadith (5670 — 5670)

19 بَابُ تَمَنِّي الْمَرِيضِ الْمَوْتَ:

Chapter. The patient’s wish for death.

4 hadith (5671 — 5674)

20 بَابُ دُعَاءِ الْعَائِدِ لِلْمَرِيضِ:

Chapter. The invocation for the patient by the one who pays a visit to him.

3 hadith (5675 — 5675)

21 بَابُ وُضُوءِ الْعَائِدِ لِلْمَرِيضِ:

Chapter. The performing of ablution by a person who pays a visit to a patient.

1 hadith (5676 — 5676)

22 بَابُ مَنْ دَعَا بِرَفْعِ الْوَبَاءِ وَالْحُمَّى:

Chapter. Whoever invoke Allah to remove epidemics and fever.

1 hadith (5677 — 5677)