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مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الطب
Book of Medicine
في كراهية الكي (والرقى)
The dislike of cauterization and ruqyah
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25170 — The dislike of cauterization
٢٥١٧٠ - حدثنا أبو بكر قال: حدثنا ابن نمير قال: حدثنا مجالد عن الشعبي عن جابر بن عبد اللَّه قال: اشتكى (رجل) (١) منا شكوى شديدة، فقال الأطباء: لا يبرأ ⦗١٨٢⦘ إلا بالكي، فأراد أهله أن (يكووه) (٢)، فقال بعضهم: لا، (حتى) (٣) (نستأمر) (٤) رسول اللَّه ﷺ، فاستأمروه فقال: "لا (حتى) (٥) يبرأ (٦) الرجل"، فلما رآه رسول اللَّه ﷺ قال: "هذا صاحب بني فلان؟ "، قالوا: نعم فقال: رسول اللَّه ﷺ: "إن هذا لو كُوى، قال الناس إنما أبرأه الكي" (٧).
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: One of our men developed a severe complaint (of some illness), and the physicians said: "This man will recover only through cauterization." His family intended to have him cauterized, but some of them said: "No, not until we ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." So they asked him, and he said: "No." Then the man recovered. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw him, he said: "Is this the man from such-and-such a tribe?" The people said: "Yes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Had this man been cauterized, people would have said that the cauterization cured him."
