- “Whoever among you is able to benefit his brother, let him do so.”
Muslim (7/18–19), Ahmad (3/382), and al-Khara’iti in Makarim al-Akhlaq (p. 90) recorded it through Ibn Jurayj, who said: Abu al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jabir ibn Abd Allah say: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, granted Banu Amr permission to use an incantation for snakebite.”
Abu al-Zubayr said: I heard Jabir ibn Abd Allah say: “A scorpion stung one of our men while we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. A man said: ‘Messenger of Allah, may I perform an incantation?’ He said...” Then he mentioned the hadith.
Layth ibn Sa’d corroborated him, narrating from Abu al-Zubayr. Ahmad recorded it (3/334).
In a version recorded by Muslim and Ahmad (3/302–315), through Abu Sufyan from Jabir, he said: “I had a maternal uncle who used to perform incantations for scorpion stings. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade incantations. So he came to him and said: ‘Messenger of Allah, you have forbidden incantations, while I perform them for scorpion stings.’ He said...” Then he mentioned the hadith.
In another version through this route: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade incantations. Then the family of Amr ibn Hazm came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: ‘Messenger of Allah, we had an incantation which we used for scorpion stings, but you have forbidden incantations.’ They presented it to him, and he said: ‘I see no harm in it. Whoever is able...’”
Ibn Majah (3515) also recorded it in similar wording and said: “He said to them: ‘Present it to me.’ So they presented it to him, and he said: ‘There is no harm in this; these are covenants.’”