Provisions for the Hereafter (Zaad Al-Ma'ad)

92 Provisions for the Hereafter (Abridged)
The second: That which is artificial and is the product of learning, as
one learns to sing using all types of invented airs and meters, which
were disliked by the Salaf and the evidences of its being disliked are
concerning this.
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Provisions for the Hereafter (Abridged)
Chapter
Regarding His 0, Guidance
in Visiting the Sick
He used to visit those of his Companions 4 who were sick; and he
visited a boy who used to serve him from among the People of the
Scripture"' and he visited his uncle, who was a polytheist 121 and he
invited them both to Islam and the Jew accepted Islam.
He would come close to the sick person and sit at his head and ask
him how he was; and he would stroke the sick person with his right
hand and say:
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"Allahumma, Rabban-Nas! Adhhibil-Basa Washfi; Antash-Shafi, La
Shifa' Illa Shifa'uka, Shifa'un La Yughadiru Sagman"
"Oh, Allah, Lord of the people, take away the disease and cure
him; You are the One Who cures and there is no cure except
Your Cure — a cure that leaves no disease." E 31
And he used to supplicate for the sick person three times, as when he
said: "Oh, Allah! Cure Said" three times. 141 And when he visited a
sick person, he would say:
I Narrated by Al-Bukhari, on the authority of Anas Ibn Malik 4
121 Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
In Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
141 Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
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