al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2910
✧ Cold water for fever
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا هَارُونُ الْحَمَّالُ، حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ، حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ:
« إِذَا حُمَّ أَحَدُكُمْ، فَلْيَشُنَّ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ الْبَارِدَ ثَلَاثَ لَيَالٍ مِنَ السَّحَرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Hārūn al-Ḥammāl
- Rawḥ
- Ḥammād
- Ḥumayd
- Anas
- In Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ When one of you has a fever, let him sprinkle cold water on himself for three nights at the time of dawn.
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- أبو زرعة الرازي
هذا خطأ إنما هو حميد عن الحسن عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو الصحيح
in المطالب العالية, p. 2910
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a concealer of defects in transmission (mudallis); Zāʾidah faulted him for involving himself in some of the affairs of the rulers.d. at the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, the year 140 AH, or 142 AH, or 143 AH.حُمَيْدٍثقة مدلس ، وعابه زائدة لدخوله في شيء من أمر الأمراء.عن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AHرَوْحٌثقة فاضل ، له تصانيفحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 241 AH, or: 243 AH, or: 249 AHهَارُونُ الْحَمَّالُثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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