Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (14/29)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

with jazara, a feverish ailment, so the physicians kept coming to him one after another. When the illness wearied him, he took honey and shunīz (1), whereupon his fever worsened. They entered to see him while he was trembling and saying, “May my father be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah! How little you knew of medicine!”

I say: Such joking is impermissible with the Master of creation. Rather, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was the most knowledgeable of people concerning prophetic medicine, and what he stated about it is sound and exactly as he intended, for he spoke by revelation: “Indeed Allah has not sent down any disease without also sending down for it a cure.” (2) Thus He taught His Messenger what he then informed the ummah of. It may be that Ṣāliḥ uttered those words in delirium (3) while the chills overpowered him and he was unaware of what he was saying, or perhaps he later repented of them; and Allah pardons him.

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Marwazī said: Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: I heard ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb say, “Allah is too just to admit Ṭalḥah and al-Zubayr into Paradise.”

I said, “Woe to you! Why?”

He replied, “Because they fought against ʿAlī after having pledged allegiance to him.”

Ibn ʿAdī (4) said: It reached me that Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad once stood behind the shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Simnānī while he was narrating those hadiths from Barakah al-Ḥalabī, and Ṣāliḥ said, “O Abū al-Ḥusayn! That is not barakah (blessing); that is niqmah (retribution).”

(1) A preparation of black cumin (Nigella sativa).
(2) Ḥadith related in several collections.
(3) That is, incoherent speech.
(4) d. 365 AH.

(1) Shuniz: in Persian this term designates the black seed (Nigella sativa). See Ibn al-Qayyim, Zad al-Maad, vol. 4, pp. 297-300. (2) Narrated by al-Bukhari, vol. 10, pp. 113-114 (opening of the Book of Medicine) on the authority of Abu Hurayra; by Ibn Majah, no. 3438 (Book of Medicine) on the authority of Abd Allah b. Masud. Also transmitted by Abu Dawud, no. 3855 (Book of Medicine) on the authority of Usama b. Shurayk, who relates the following: “I came to the Prophet ﷺ while his Companions sat so motionless that birds could have perched on their heads. After greeting him and sitting down, I saw Bedouins arrive from all sides. They asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, should we seek medical treatment?’ He answered, ‘Seek treatment, for Allah, Exalted and Majestic, has not sent down a disease without sending down its cure, except for one disease: old age.’” The hadith is likewise found in Ahmad, 4/278; Ibn Majah, no. 3436; and al-Tirmidhi, no. 2038, who graded it hasan sahih. Ibn Hibban authenticated it under nos. 1395 and 1924. (3) Meaning: i.e. delirium. See Lisan al-Arab, root h-j-r. (4) Al-Kamil, 1/39a, biographical entry on Baraka al-Halabi.

جَزَرَة، فَكَانَ الأَطِبَّاءُ يَخْتلفون إِلَيْهِ، فَلَمَّا أَعيَاهُ الأَمْرُ، أَخذَ العَسَلَ وَالشُّونِيْز (١) ، فَزَادَتْ حُمَّاهُ، فَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ وَهُوَ يَرْتَعِدُ وَيَقُوْلُ: بأَبِي أَنْتَ يَا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ، مَا كَانَ أَقلَّ بَصَرَكَ بِالطِّبِّ! قُلْتُ: هَذَا مُزَاحٌ لاَ يَجُوْزُ مَعَ سَيِّدِ الخَلْقِ، بَلْ كَانَ رَسُوْلُ اللهِ ﷺ أَعْلَمَ النَّاسِ بِالطِّبِّ النَّبوِيّ، الَّذِي ثَبَتَ أَنَّهُ قَالَهُ عَلَى الوَجْهِ الَّذِي قَصَدَهُ، فَإِنَّهُ قَاله بِوَحْيٍ: (فَإِنَّ اللهَ لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ دَاءً، إِلاَّ وَأَنْزَلَ لَهُ دوَاءً (٢)) ، فَعَلَّمَ رَسُولَهُ مَا أَخْبَرَ الأُمَّة بِهِ، وَلَعَلَّ صَالِحاً قَالَ هَذِهِ الكَلِمَةُ مِنَ الهُجْرِ (٣) فِي حَالِ غَلَبَة الرِّعْدَةِ، فَمَا وَعَى مَا يَقُوْلُ، أَوْ لَعَلَّهُ تَاب مِنْهَا، وَاللهُ يَعْفُو عَنْهُ. قَالَ عَلِيُّ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ المَرْوَزِيُّ: حَدَّثَنَا صَالِحُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ: سَمِعْتُ عبَّادَ بنَ يَعْقُوْبَ يَقُوْلُ: اللهُ أَعْدَلُ مِنْ أَنْ يُدْخِل طَلْحَة وَالزُّبَيْر الجَنَّةَ. قُلْتُ: وَيْلَكَ! وَلِمَ؟ قَالَ: لأَنَّهُمَا قَاتَلاَ عَلِيّاً بَعْدَ أَنْ بَايعَاهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ عَدِيٍّ (٤) :بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ صَالِحَ بنَ مُحَمَّدٍ وَقَفَ خَلْفَ الشَّيْخِ أَبِي الحُسَيْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ مُحَمَّدٍ السِّمْنَانِيّ، وَهُوَ يُحَدِّث عَنْ بَرَكَةَ الحَلَبِيِّ بِتِلْكَ الأَحَادِيْثِ، فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا الحُسَيْنِ! لَيْسَ ذَا بَرَكَةٌ، ذَا نِقْمَةٌ.

(١) الشونيز: هو الحبة السوداء في لغة الفرس، وانظر ما كتبه ابن القيم عن الشونيز في " زاد المعاد " ٤ / ٣٠٠ ٢٩٧. (٢) أخرجه البخاري: ١٠ / ١١٤ ١١٣ في أول كتاب الطب عن أبي هريرة مرفوعا، وأخرجه ابن ماجه (٣٤٣٨) في الطب عن عبد الله بن مسعود ﵁. وأخرجه أبو داود في الطب (٣٨٥٥) عن أسامة بن شريك قال: أتيت النبي ﷺ، وأصحابه كأنما على رؤوسهم الطير، فسلمت ثم قعدت، فجاء الاعراب من ها هنا وهاهنا، فقالوا: يا رسول الله انتداوى؟ فقال: " تداووا، فإن الله عزوجل لم يضع داء إلا وضع له دواء غير داء واحد: الهرم ". وأخرجه أحمد: ٤ / ٢٧٨، وابن ماجه (٣٤٣٦) ، والترمذي (٢٠٣٨) وقال: هذا حديث حسن صحيح، وهو كما قال: وصححه ابن حبان (١٣٩٥) و (١٩٢٤) . (٣) أي: من الهذيان. انظر " اللسان " مادة " هجر ". (٤) في " الكامل " ١ / ٣٩ / أ، في ترجمته لبركة الحلبي.