Eating with the leper

It is narrated from Ibn Buraydah that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) would himself prepare food from his own earnings, then invite those suffering from leprosy and eat with them.

It is narrated from a man that he saw Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) eating with a man who had leprosy, and Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) was placing his hand where the hand of the man with leprosy had been.

Abd al-Rahman bin al-Qasim reports from his father that he said: A delegation of the tribe of Thaqif came to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him). Food was brought, and all the people drew near, but a man who had this disease of leprosy moved to one side. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr said to him: Come near. So he came near. Then Sayyiduna Abu Bakr said: Eat. So he ate, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr began placing his hand where the man's hand had been.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took the hand of a man with leprosy and put it with his own in the bowl, and said: "Eat, in the name of Allah, with reliance on Allah and trust in Allah."

It is narrated from Yahya bin Ja'dah that he said: A black man with smallpox came, whose skin was peeling. Whoever he sat beside would make him get up, but the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took him by the hand and seated him at his side.

It is narrated from Ikrimah that he said: A man with leprosy clung to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), so I said to him: You are clinging to a man with leprosy? He said: Leave it; perhaps he is better than you and me.

It is narrated from Miqsam that he said: People used to avoid eating with the blind, the lame and the sick, until this verse was revealed: There is no blame on the blind, nor on the lame, nor on the sick. [Surah al-Nur: 61]

It is narrated from al-Rabi' bin Khuthaym that he said to his family: Prepare for me a sweet of dates and ghee. The narrator said: The family prepared it. Then he called a man who suffered from madness. Al-Rabi' began feeding him morsel by morsel while his saliva was running. When he had eaten and left, his wife said to al-Rabi': We took so much trouble in making this sweet, and you fed it to him? What does he know of what he has eaten? Al-Rabi' replied: But Allah Almighty knows.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: I had a freed slave who had leprosy. He would sleep on my bed and eat from my bowl. If he were alive (now), the (matter) would have remained the same.