What Has Been Related About Senna
Darussalam · Volume 4
26. Chapters On Medicine From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺJami at-Tirmidhi Darussalam English translation
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Source no. 2081 · Volume 5 · Page 81
Da‘if
ضعيف، ابن ماجة (٤٥٣٧) // هذا وهم في أصل الشيخ ناصر. وإنما هو رقم مشكاة المصابيح والشيخ ناصر لم يحل على المشكاة. وأما رقم "ضعيف سنن ابن ماجة" فهو (٧٦٠ - ٣٤٦١) ومن منا لا يسهو - وانظر " ضعيف الجامع الصغير (٤٨٠٧) //
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2081. Asmā' bint 'Umais narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ asked her what they used as a laxative. She said: "Shubrum" He said: "It is hot and too strong." She said: "Then I use senna as a laxative." So the Prophet ﷺ said: "If there was anything that would have a cure for death in it, then it would have been senna." (Da'if) [Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is [Hasan] Gharīb. [Meaning the usage of a laxative as a treatment].
٢٠٨١ - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَكْرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عُتْبَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ ، عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ عُمَيْسٍ «أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ سَأَلَهَا: بِمَ تَسْتَمْشِينَ»؟ قَالَتْ: بِالشُّبْرُمِ قَالَ: حَارٌّ جَارٌّ. قَالَتْ: ثُمَّ اسْتَمْشَيْتُ بِالسَّنَا، فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: لَوْ أَنَّ شَيْئًا كَانَ فِيهِ شِفَاءٌ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ لَكَانَ فِي السَّنَا. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ.
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Senna (cassia) is a self-vegetating shrub growing in the Hijāz region of Western Arabia. Its leaves are granulated (surface roughened with grains) and the plant grows from a single root. It is a good laxative. (For details see Tibb Nabawī Aur Jadid Science (Urdu) by Dr. Khālid Ghaznawī pp. 145 - 158; Zād Al-Ma'ād v.4, p.69 and Ibn Al-Qayyim's Tibb Nabawī (Urdu) Translation by 'Azizur-Raḥmān A'zāmī, p. 155)