The supplication for a sick person on visiting him

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to seek protection and perform ruqyah with these words: "O Lord of mankind, remove the affliction. Grant healing, for You are the Healer; there is no healing but Your healing, a healing that leaves no illness behind." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: When the illness of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away grew severe, I would take his (peace and blessings be upon him) hand, and I kept passing his own hand over his body and reciting this supplication. She said: He (peace and blessings be upon him) withdrew his hand from my hand and made this supplication: O Allah, join me with the Companion (al-Rafiq). Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: This was the last thing I heard of his (peace and blessings be upon him) speech.

The preceding report of Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) is also narrated through this chain, except that in this chain the words "fa-lamma thaqula" (when his illness grew severe) do not occur.

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to make this supplication for a sick person: O Lord of mankind, remove the affliction. Grant healing, for You are the Healer; there is no healing other than Your healing, a healing that leaves no illness behind.

Sufyan said: I mentioned this hadith to Mansur, and he narrated it to me from Ibrahim, from Masruq, from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), with something similar.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) visited a sick person, he would make this supplication: O Lord of mankind, remove the affliction. Grant healing, for You are the Healer; there is no healer but You.

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would put his blessed saliva on his finger and make this supplication for a sick person: In the name of Allah, by the soil of our land and the saliva of some of us, may our sick one be healed by the permission of our Lord.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came in to me while I was in pain, and he said: Shall I not perform for you a ruqyah that Jibril (peace be upon him) taught me? In the name of Allah I perform ruqyah for you, and may Allah heal you from every limb that gives you pain, and from the evil of those who blow on knots, and from the evil of the envier when he envies.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever goes to a sick person whose death is not near and recites these words seven times: I ask Allah, the Magnificent, Lord of the Magnificent Throne, to heal you, then that sick person will be healed.

Sayyiduna Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) relates concerning the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that Jibril (peace be upon him) performed ruqyah for him (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was suffering from a severe fever, reciting these words: In the name of Allah I perform ruqyah for you, from every illness that harms you, from every envier when he envies, and from every (evil) eye; and the name of Allah will heal you.

Sayyiduna Muhammad bin Hatib (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I took hold of a hot cooking pot and my hand was burned. My mother took me to a man who was sitting in an open plain, and my mother said to him: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! He said: At your service and happy to serve. Then my mother brought me close to him, and he would blow and say something; I could not make out what he was saying. Afterwards I asked my mother what he had been reciting. My mother said: He was reciting these words: O Lord of mankind, remove the affliction. Grant healing, for You are the Healer; there is no healer but You.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform ruqyah for al-Hasan and al-Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both) with these words: I commit you both to the protection of the perfect words of Allah, from the evil of every devil and harmful creature, and from the evil of every evil eye. Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Ibrahim (peace be upon him) also used to perform ruqyah for Ismail and Ishaq (peace be upon them both) with these words.

Sayyiduna Abdullah Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform ruqyah for al-Hasan and al-Husayn (may Allah be pleased with them both). The narrator then mentioned the same content as the preceding hadith, except that he did not state the word "sharr" (evil).

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was in pain, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me while I was supplicating thus: O Allah, if my death has come, then give me rest through death; if my death is still delayed, then heal me or grant me well-being; and if it is a trial, then bless me with patience. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: What are you reciting? Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I recited those words before him (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) passed his blessed hand over me and then made this supplication: O Allah, heal him or grant him well-being. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I never suffered from that pain again.

Sayyiduna Uthman bin Abi al-As al-Thaqafi (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while I was suffering severe pain, and this pain had nearly incapacitated me completely. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: Place your right hand on the site of the pain, then recite these words seven times: I begin in the name of Allah; I seek refuge in the might of Allah and His power from the evil of what I find. Sayyiduna Uthman bin Abi al-As al-Thaqafi (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I did so, and Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, healed me.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to teach us this supplication for all pains and for fever: I begin in the name of Allah, who is the Most Great; I seek refuge in Allah, the Magnificent, from the evil of every vein that causes disorder, and from the evil of the heat of the fire.

Fudayl bin Amr said: A man came to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and said that so-and-so was very ill. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Would you like him to recover from the illness? The man said: Yes. He said: Recite these words three times: O Forbearing One, O Most Generous One, grant healing.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) fell ill, and Jibril (peace be upon him) performed ruqyah for him (peace and blessings be upon him), reciting these words: In the name of Allah I perform ruqyah for you (peace and blessings be upon him), from everything that harms you, from every envier and from the evil eye; and Allah will heal you.

Amrah bint Abd al-Rahman said: The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), fell ill, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came in to her while a Jewish woman was performing ruqyah for her. He said: Perform ruqyah for her with the Book of Allah.

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) visited a sick person, he would make this supplication: O Lord of mankind, remove the affliction, and grant healing, for You are the Healer; there is no healer but You, a healing after which no illness remains.