—and he is not deemed trustworthy.

Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Farajī said: I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī declare, “You must rely on the books of al-Shāfiʿī.” (1)

I say: Among the many disciplines of this Imām was medicine; he understood it well.

More than one transmitter reports that he said: “It amazes me that someone can leave the bathhouse and then not eat immediately—how does he stay alive? And it amazes me that someone can undergo cupping and then eat straightaway—how does he stay alive?” (2)

Harmalah relates from al-Shāfiʿī that he said: “Whoever eats citron and then sleeps, I do not feel safe that a stroke will not befall him.”

Muḥammad ibn ʿIṣmah al-Jawzajānī said: I heard al-Rabīʿ say—I heard al-Shāfiʿī say:

“Three things are a remedy for the one who has no remedy and whose case has exhausted the physicians: grapes, camel milk, and sugar-cane. Were it not for sugar-cane, I would not remain in your land.” (3)

I also heard him say: “My servant suffered from night-blindness; he could not even see the doorway. I took a small piece of liver, prepared a collyrium from it, applied it to his eyes, and he recovered his sight.” (4)

And from him: “It is astonishing that anyone should eat boiled eggs for supper and then go to sleep—how does he not die?” (5)

And from him: “Fava beans increase the substance of the brain, and the brain increases the intellect.” (6)