Sahih al-Bukhari 5688
Black Seed (Black Cumin / Nigella Sativa)
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ أَخْبَرَهُمَا أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:
«فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءٌ مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا السَّامَ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Bukayr
- al-Layth
- ʿUqayl
- Ibn Shihāb
- Abū Salamah and Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab
- Abū Hurayrah Akhbarahumā
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "In the black seed there is healing from every disease except al-sam."
Notes
Ibn Shihab said: al-sam is death, and the black seed is shuniz.
قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ: وَالسَّامُ الْمَوْتُ، وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ الشُّونِيزُ.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Sunan Ibnu Majah 3447«إِنَّ فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلاَّ السَّامَ».
- Misykatul Mashabih 4520وَعَن أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءٌ مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا السَّامَ». قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ: السَّامُ: الْمَوْتُ وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ: الش
- Shahih Muslim 2215a«إِنَّ فِي الْحَبَّةِ السَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلاَّ السَّامَ»، وَالسَّامُ الْمَوْتُ، وَالْحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ الشُّونِيزُ.»
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 10046Musnad Ahmad 10626Musnad Ahmad 10947Musnad Ahmad 25067al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5289al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7552
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةأخبرهما
- One of the reliable (athbāt), eminent jurist scholarsd. 87 AH, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn al-Madīnī said: 105 AHوَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْمُسَيِّبِأحد العلماء الأثبات الفقهاء الكبارأخبرني
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AHعُقَيْلٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHاللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrating from al-Layth, but they spoke critically about his hearing from Mālikd. 231 AH or 232 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍثقة في الليث ، وتكلموا في سماعه من مالكحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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