Medicine of the Prophet (SAAS): Tibb an-Nabbi by Jalal Ad-Din As-Suyuti

Author:Jalal Ad-Din As-Suyuti [As-Suyuti, Jalal Ad-Din]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781897940150
Publisher: Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd
Published: 2015-05-30T18:30:00+00:00

Prescribing Doing Without Food

Doing without food slows down an illness and enables the faculties to drive it out. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to give advice to this effect, and he forbade everything that is harmful.

The author of this book says: “I was told by Imam al-Hafidh Jamal ud-Din Abu Hajjaj Yusuf ibn az-Zaki Abd ar-Rahman Yusuf al-Mazani, who said that he was told by Abu al-lshaq Ibrahim ibn Isma’il ibn Ibrahim al-Qurshi, who said that he was told by Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Nasr, the pharmacist, who said that he was told by Abu ‘Ali al-Hassan ibn Ahmad, the smith, by Abu Mansur Mahmoud ibn lsma’il, the money changer, and by Fatima bint ‘Abdullah al-Juzdaniya – and of these the smith said that they were told by Abu Nu’aim Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullah al- Hafidh, and the money changer said that they were told by Abu al-Hussayn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Fadshah, and Fatima said that they were told by Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Zayd – and all of whom said that they were told by Abu’l-Qasim Sulayman ibn Ahmad of Tiberias, who said that he had received the hadith from Sharih ibn al-Na’man, who said that he had received the hadith from Faliyah ibn Sulayman, who received it from Ayyub ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Sa’sa’t, who received it from Ya’qub ibn Abi Ya’qub, who received it from Umm al-Manzir Salma bint Qays al-Ansariyya – and truly, she said, “The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, entered my tent, and ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, came with him, and ‘Ali was recovering from some illness at the time, and we had a palm tree nearby, with some date-clusters hanging from it.”

She continued her story: “The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stood there eating them, and ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, also stood there eating. Then the Prophet said, ‘Slowly, slowly, for you are still recovering.’”

Umm al-Manzir continued: “So ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, sat down, while the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, continued to eat from the tree, and in the mean time I prepared a meal of spinach and barley for them. Then the Prophet said to ‘Ali, ‘Have some of this, for it will do you more good.’”

This hadith has also been transmitted by Imam Ahmad, who was told it by Sharih ibn al-Na’man, whose isnad we have already stated. At-Tirmidhi, however, said, “We do not recognise the authorities before Faliyah.” However, this hadith has also been transmitted by Abu Daw’ud in his Book on Medicine.

(The word ‘ad-dawal’ is the plural of ‘ad-daliyah’, and means a cluster of dates on a palm bearing fully grown dates which are just beginning to ripen and are now fit for eating.

The word ‘an-naqa’ means someone who has recovered from his illness, but only recently, and who has not yet been restored to full health.

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