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SECTION FIVE – From “Weak” to “Sound (excluding what is between the brackets)”
290 – “We set out on a journey and a stone struck one of the men with us, splitting his head open. Later he had a nocturnal emission, so he asked his companions, ‘Do you see any concession for me to perform dry ablution (tayammum)?’ … When we came back to the Prophet ﷺ and told him what had happened, he said, ‘They have killed him! … It would have been enough for him to do tayammum, then squeeze or bind a piece of cloth over his wound, wipe over it, and wash the rest of his body.’”
Reported by Abū Dāwūd from Jābir and by Ibn Ḥibbān from Ibn ʿAbbās.
First ruling: weak — al-Irwāʾ (105).
Final ruling: ḥasan, excluding what is between the brackets — Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (336).
291 – “Allah, Exalted is He, has sent down both the illness and the cure, and He has appointed a remedy for every illness; so seek treatment, but do not seek treatment with what is unlawful.”
Reported by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr from Umm al-Dardāʾ, and by Abū Dāwūd from Abū al-Dardāʾ.
First ruling: weak — Ḍaʿīf al-Jāmiʿ (1569).
Final ruling: sound, excluding what is between the brackets — al-Mishkāt (4538); Hidāyat al-Ruwāt (4464).
292 – “People will follow your lead, and men shall come to you from the farthest regions of the earth to gain understanding in the religion. When they reach you, then treat them kindly.”
Reported by al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah from Abū Saʿīd.
First ruling: weak — Ḍaʿīf al-Jāmiʿ (1797).
Final ruling: sound, excluding what is between the brackets — Hidāyat al-Ruwāt (212).