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2079. Maimūn Abū ‘Abdullāh said: “I heard Zaid bin Arqam say: ‘The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ ordered us to use Qust Al-Bahrī[1] and oil to treat pleurisy.’” (Da’if)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan [Gharīb] Ṣaḥīḥ. We do not know of it except as a narration of Maimūn from Zaid bin Arqam. More than one of the people of knowledge have reported this Hadīth from Maimūn. And Dhāt Al-Janb (pleurisy) is As-Sill (tuberculosis).[2]
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Qust Al-Bahrī (costus) is a kind of Indian incense. Pleurisy is of two kinds: (i) Real, which is the name given to a condition of swelling appearing in the inner wall of the ribs, and (ii) Unreal, a condition of pain (similar to the one that a person feels in Real Pleurisy) around the rib cage, caused by obnoxious and painful gases collected in the peritoneum.