Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Abu Taybah cupped the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that he be given two sa' of food, and he spoke to his masters that they should reduce his tax, and he said: "The best of your remedies is al-hijamah (cupping) and the use of al-qust al-bahri (sea costus); and do not torment your children by pressing (their throats) because of throat pain."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19509
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Abu Taybah cupped the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he was given a sa' of dates, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) also reduced his tax.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19510
Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent for a slave and, after being cupped, told that he be given "one or two sa', or one or two mudd", and he also ordered that his tax be reduced.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19511
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would get cupped and would not wrong anyone in his wage.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19512
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got cupped, then gave the cupper his wage, and he took medicine through the nose.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19513
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: A slave of Banu Bayadah cupped him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) paid him his wage. Had the wage for cupping been unlawful, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would not have paid it. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered his masters to reduce his tax.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19514
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got cupped and paid the wage. Had he considered it unlawful, he would not have paid it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19515
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got cupped and paid the wage; had he (peace and blessings be upon him) considered it unlawful, he would not have paid it.
The narration of Muhammad bin Sirin from Ibn Abbas is mursal (its chain is broken).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19516
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got cupped and paid the wage. Had he considered it unlawful, he would never have given it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19517
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got cupped and paid the cupper his wage. Had he considered the wage unlawful, he would not have paid it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19518
Tawus (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) "got cupped and ordered that the cupper be given a gift."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19519
Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) got cupped and ordered me to pay the cupper his wage. Abdullah bin Damrah narrates from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "The earnings of the cupper are unlawful."
The first report is sounder and more in keeping with what has preceded than the one narrated by Ata al-Khurasani from Abdullah bin Damrah from Ali.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19520
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said that a relative of Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) came to him, and he asked him about his livelihood. He mentioned a bathhouse or a cupper, or he mentioned two cuppers, and he said: Your earnings are filth, or he said 'danas' (dirty) or 'dani' (lowly), or mentioned another word like it. "The earnings of the cupper are dirty."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19521
Abd al-Rahman bin Abi al-Zinad (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father (may Allah have mercy on him) that the Quraysh in the Jahiliyyah used to hold themselves above the earnings of the cupper out of nobility; yet had it been unlawful, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would not have said: "Use it in the fodder of the orphan's camel."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الضحايا / 19522