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How Ruqyah Is To Be Used

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Darussalam · Volume 4

BOOK 27. THE BOOKOF MEDICINE

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الحديث: 3901 ¦ الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 14

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3901. It was narrated from Mu'ādḥ[1] and Muḥammad bin Ja'far, both of them narrated it from Shu'bah, from 'Abdullāh bin Abī As-Safar, from Ash-Sh'abī, from Khārijah bin Aṣ-Ṣalt At-Tamīmī that his paternal uncle said: "We came from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and arrived with an Arab tribe. They said: 'We have been told that you have brought something good from this man. Do you have any remedy or Ruqyah? For we have an insane man in chains.' We said: 'Yes.' So they brought an insane man who was in chains." He said: "I recited the Opening of the Book over him for three days, morning and evening, and every time I completed it, I collected my saliva and spat (on him), and it was as if he was released from bonds. They gave me some payment, and I said: 'Not until I ask the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ.' He ﷺ said: 'Accept it, by my life, for indeed the one who earns by means of false Ruqyah (will earn his burden of sin), but you have earned it by means of a truthful Ruqyah.'" (Hasan)

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3901 - حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، ح، وحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي السَّفَرِ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ خَارِجَةَ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ التَّمِيمِيِّ، عَنْ عَمِّهِ، قَالَ: أَقْبَلْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَأَتَيْنَا عَلَى حَيٍّ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ، فَقَالُوا: إِنَّا أُنْبِئْنَا أَنَّكُمْ قَدْ جِئْتُمْ مِنْ عِنْدِ هَذَا الرَّجُلِ بِخَيْرٍ، فَهَلْ عِنْدَكُمْ مِنْ دَوَاءٍ أَوْ رُقْيَةٍ فَإِنَّ عِنْدَنَا مَعْتُوهًا فِي الْقُيُودِ؟ قَالَ: فَقُلْنَا: نَعَمْ قَالَ: فَجَاءُوا بِمَعْتُوهٍ فِي الْقُيُودِ، قَالَ: فَقَرَأْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ غُدْوَةً، وَعَشِيَّةً، كُلَّمَا خَتَمْتُهَا أَجْمَعُ بُزَاقِي ثُمَّ أَتْفُلُ فَكَأَنَّمَا نَشَطَ مِنْ عِقَالٍ، قَالَ: فَأَعْطَوْنِي جُعْلًا، فَقُلْتُ: لَا، حَتَّى أَسْأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «كُلْ فَلَعَمْرِي مَنْ أَكَلَ بِرُقْيَةِ بَاطِلٍ لَقَدْ أَكَلْتَ بِرُقْيَةِ حَقٍّ»

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    [1] Ibn Naṣr bin Hassān.