Sunan Abi Dawud

Narrated Kabshah daughter of AbuBakrah: (the narrator other than Musa said that Kayyisah daughter of AbuBakrah) She said that her father used to forbid his family to have themselves cupped on a Tuesday, and used to assert on the authority of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) that Tuesda…

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had himself cupped above the thigh for a contusion from which he suffered

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet (ﷺ) sent a physician to Ubayy (ibn Ka'b), and he cut his vein

Narrated Imran ibn Husayn: The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade to cauterise; we cauterised but they (cauterisation) did not benefit us, nor proved useful for us. Abu Dawud said: He used to hear the salutation of the angels: When he cauterized, it stopped. When he abandoned, it returned to hi…

Jabir said:The Prophet (ﷺ) cauterized Sa’d b. Mu’adh from the wound of an arrow

Ibn’Abbas said:The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) snuffed medicine

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked about a charm for one who is possessed (nashrah). He replied: It pertains to the work of the devil

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If I drink an antidote, or tie an amulet, or compose poetry, I am the type who does not care what he does. Abu Dawud said: THis was peculiar to the Prophet (ﷺ), but some people have allowed to use it, i…

Narrated Abu Hurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited unclean medicine

Narrated AbdurRahman ibn Uthman: When a physician consulted the Prophet (ﷺ) about putting frogs in medicine, he forbade him to kill them

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:If anyone drinks poison, the poison will be in his hand (on the Day of Judgement) and he will drink it in Hell-fire and he will live in it eternally

Narrated Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq: Wa'il said: Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about wine, but he forbade it. He again asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him: Prophet of Allah, it is a medicine. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: No it is a diseas…

Narrated Abu al-Darda: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for every disease, so treat yourselves medically, but use nothing unlawful

Narrated Sa'd: I suffered from an illness. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to pay a visit to me. He put his hands between my nipples and I felt its coolness at my heart. He said: You are a man suffering from heart sickness. Go to al-Harith ibn Kaladah, brother of Thaqif. He is a…

Sa’d b. Abl Waqqas reported the prophet (ﷺ) as saying:He who has a morning meal of seven ‘Ajwah dates will not suffer from any harm that day through poison or magic

Umm Qasis, daughter of Mihsan said :I brought my son to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) while I had compressed his uvula for its swelling. He said : Why do you afflict your children by squeezing for a swelling in the Uvula ? Apply this Indian aloes wood, for it contain seven types of…

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Wear your white garments, for they are among your best garments, and shroud your dead in them. Among the best types of collyrium you use is antimony (ithmid): it clears the vision and makes the hair sprout

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying :The evil is genuine

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin: The man casting evil would be commanded to perform ablution, and then the man affected was washed with it

Narrated Asma', daughter of Yazid ibn as-Sakan,: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Do not kill your children secretly, for the milk, with which a child is suckled while his mother is pregnant, overtakes the horseman and throws him from his horse