al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2959
✧ Ruqyah
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ مُكْرَمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ عُبَادَةَ هُوَ ابْنُ الصَّامِتِ قَالَ:
كُنْتُ أَرْقِي فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ مِنْ وَعْكِ الْغِبِّ، فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْإِسْلَامُ ذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَالَ: « اعْرِضْهَا عَلَيَّ »، فَقَالَ ﷺ: « ارْقِ بِهَا ; لَيْسَ بِهَا بَأْسٌ »، فَوَاللهِ لَوْلَا ذَلِكَ مَا رَقَيْتُ بِهَا إِنْسَانًا أَبَدًا
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- ʿUqbah b. Mukram
- Yūnus b. Bukayr
- Ibn Isḥāq
- ʿUbādah b. al-Walīd
- his father
- Jaddih ʿUbādah
- Ibn al-Ṣāmit
✧ I used to perform ruqyah in the Jahiliyyah for the fever of gib (a type of fever). When Islam came, I mentioned that to the Messenger of God ﷺ, and he said: "Present it to me." He ﷺ then said: "Perform ruqyah with it; there is no harm in it." By God, were it not for that, I would never have performed ruqyah with it on any person ever.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan Abi Dawud 3888Musnad Ahmad 24326al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19650al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10038Musnad Abi Ya'la 2819Musnad Abi Ya'la 4910
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 32 AH, or: 34 AH, or: 45 AHعُبَادَة بْن الصَّامِتصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 70 AH, some later scholars claimed: 82 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 101 AH 110 AHعُبَادَةَ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHابْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes (yukhṭiʾ)d. 199 AHيُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍصدوق يخطئحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 234 AHعُقْبَةُ بْنُ مُكْرَمٍصدوقحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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