Sahih Muslim — Greetings

Abu Sa'id Khudri reported that a person came to Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) and told him that his brother's bowels were loose. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:Give him honey. So he gave him that and then came and said: I gave him honey but it has only made his bowels more loose. He said this three times; and then he came the fourth time, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: Give him honey. He said: I did give him, but it has only made his bowels more loose, whereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Allah has spoken the truth and your brother's bowels are in the wrong. So he made him drink (honey) and he was recovered

حدثنا محمد بن المثنى، ومحمد بن بشار، - واللفظ لابن المثنى - قالا حدثنا محمد بن جعفر، حدثنا شعبة، عن قتادة، عن ابي المتوكل، عن ابي سعيد الخدري، قال جاء رجل الى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال ان اخي استطلق بطنه . فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " اسقه عسلا " . فسقاه ثم جاءه فقال اني سقيت��ه عسلا فلم يزده الا استطلاقا . فقال له ثلاث مرات ثم جاء الرابعة فقال " اسقه عسلا " . فقال لقد سقيته فلم يزده الا استطلاقا . فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " صدق الله وكذب بطن اخيك " . فسقاه فبرا

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Sa'id Khudri through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording

وحدثنيه عمرو بن زرارة، اخبرنا عبد الوهاب، - يعني ابن عطاء - عن سعيد، عن قتادة، عن ابي المتوكل الناجي، عن ابي سعيد الخدري، ان رجلا، اتى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال ان اخي عرب بطنه . فقال له " اسقه عسلا " . بمعنى حديث شعبة

Amir b. Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas reported on the authority of his father that he asked Usama b. Zaid:What have you heard from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about plague? Thereupon Usama said: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Plague is a calamity which was sent to Bani Isra'il or upon those who were before you. So when you hear that it has broken out in a land, don't go to it, and when it has broken out in the land where you are, don't run out of it. In the narration transmitted on the authority of Abu Nadr there is a slight variation of wording

حدثنا يحيى بن يحيى، قال قرات على مالك عن محمد بن المنكدر، وابي النضر، مولى عمر بن عبيد الله عن عامر بن سعد بن ابي وقاص، عن ابيه، انه سمعه يسال، اسامة بن زيد ماذا سمعت من، رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في الطاعون فقال اسامة قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " الطاعون رجز او عذاب ارسل على بني اسراييل او على من كان قبلكم فاذا سمعتم به بارض فلا تقدموا عليه واذا وقع بارض وانتم بها فلا تخرجوا فرارا منه " . وقال ابو النضر " لا يخرجكم الا فرار منه

Usama b. Zaid reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said:Plague is the sign of a calamity with which Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, affects people from His servants. So when you hear about it, don't enter there (where it has broken out), and when it has broken out in a land and you are there, then don't run away from it

حدثنا عبد الله بن مسلمة بن قعنب، وقتيبة بن سعيد، قالا اخبرنا المغيرة، - ونسبه ابن قعنب فقال ابن عبد الرحمن القرشي - عن ابي النضر، عن عامر بن سعد، بن ابي وقاص عن اسامة بن زيد، قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " الطاعون اية الرجز ابتلى الله عز وجل به ناسا من عباده فاذا سمعتم به فلا تدخلوا عليه واذا وقع بارض وانتم بها فلا تفروا منه " . هذا حديث القعنبي وقتيبة نحوه

Usama reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:Plague is a calamity which was inflicted on those who were before you, or upon Bani Isra'il. So when it has broken out in a land, don't run out of it, and when it has spread in a land, then don't enter it

وحدثنا محمد بن عبد الله بن نمير، حدثنا ابي، حدثنا سفيان، عن محمد بن المنكدر، عن عامر بن سعد، عن اسامة، قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " ان هذا الطاعون رجز سلط على من كان قبلكم او على بني اسراييل فاذا كان بارض فلا تخرجوا منها فرارا منه واذا كان بارض فلا تدخلوها

Amir b. Sa'd reported that a person asked Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas about the plague, whereupon Usama b. Zaid said:I would inform you about it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: It is a calamity or a disease which Allah sent to a group of Bani Isra'il, or to the people who were before you; so when you hear of it in land, don't enter it and when it has broken out in your land, don't run away from it

حدثني محمد بن حاتم، حدثنا محمد بن بكر، اخبرنا ابن جريج، اخبرني عمرو، بن دينار ان عامر بن سعد، اخبره ان رجلا سال سعد بن ابي وقاص عن الطاعون، فقال اسامة بن زيد انا اخبرك عنه، قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " هو عذاب او رجز ارسله الله على طايفة من بني اسراييل او ناس كانوا قبلكم فاذا سمعتم به بارض فلا تدخلوها عليه واذا دخلها عليكم فلا تخرجوا منها فرارا

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Juraij through another chain of transmitters

وحدثنا ابو الربيع، سليمان بن داود وقتيبة بن سعيد قالا حدثنا حماد، وهو ابن زيد ح وحدثنا ابو بكر بن ابي شيبة، حدثنا سفيان بن عيينة، كلاهما عن عمرو بن، دينار باسناد ابن جريج نحو حديثه

Usama b. Zaid reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) having said this:This calamity or illness was a punishment with which were punished some of the nations before you. Then it was left upon the earth. It goes away once and comes back again. He who heard of its presence in a land should not go towards it, and he who happened to be in a land where it had broken out should not fly from it

حدثني ابو الطاهر، احمد بن عمرو وحرملة بن يحيى قالا اخبرنا ابن وهب، اخبرني يونس، عن ابن شهاب، اخبرني عامر بن سعد، عن اسامة بن زيد، عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم انه قال " ان هذا الوجع او السقم رجز عذب به بعض الامم قبلكم ثم بقي بعد بالارض فيذهب المرة وياتي الاخرى فمن سمع به بارض فلا يقدمن عليه ومن وقع بارض وهو بها فلا يخرجنه الفرار منه

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with a different chain of transmitters

وحدثناه ابو كامل الجحدري، حدثنا عبد الواحد، - يعني ابن زياد - حدثنا معمر، عن الزهري، باسناد يونس نحو حديثه

Shu'ba reported from Habib:While we were in Medina we heard of plague having broken out in Kufa. 'Ata b. Yasir and others said to me that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said. If you are in a land where it (this scourge) has broken out, don't get out of it, and if you were to know that it had broken (in another land, then don't enter it. I said to him: From whom (did you hear it)? They said: 'Amir b. Sa'd has narrated it. So I came to him. They said that he was not present there. So I met his brother Ibrahim b. Sa'd and asked him. He said: I bear testimony to the fact that Usama narrated it to Sa'd saying: I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying that it is a God-sent punishment from the calamity or from the remnant of the calamity with which people were afflicted before you. So when it is in a land and you are there, don't get out of it, and if (this news reaches you) that it has broken out in a land, then don't enter therein. Habib said: I said to Ibrahim: Did you hear Usama narrating it to Sa'd and he was not denying it. He said: Yes

حدثنا محمد بن المثنى، حدثنا ابن ابي عدي، عن شعبة، عن حبيب، قال كنا بالمدينة فبلغني ان الطاعون قد وقع بالكوفة فقال لي عطاء بن يسار وغيره ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال " اذا كنت بارض فوقع بها فلا تخرج منها واذا بلغك انه بارض فلا تدخلها " . قال قلت عمن قالوا عن عامر بن سعد يحدث به . قال فاتيته فقالوا غايب - قال - فلقيت اخاه ابراهيم بن سعد فسالته فقال شهدت اسامة يحدث سعدا قال سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول " ان هذا الوجع رجز او عذاب او بقية عذاب عذب به اناس من قبلكم فاذا كان بارض وانتم بها فلا تخرجوا منها واذا بلغكم انه بارض فلا تدخلوها " . قال حبيب فقلت لابراهيم انت سمعت اسامة يحدث سعدا وهو لا ينكر قال نعم

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters except for the fact that no mention has been made of the account of 'Ata b. Yasir as in the previous hadith

وحدثناه عبيد الله بن معاذ، حدثنا ابي، حدثنا شعبة، بهذا الاسناد غير انه لم يذكر قصة عطاء بن يسار في اول الحديث

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Sa'd b. Malik, Khuzaima b. Thabit and Usama b. Zaid

وحدثنا ابو بكر بن ابي شيبة، حدثنا وكيع، عن سفيان، عن حبيب، عن ابراهيم، بن سعد عن سعد بن مالك، وخزيمة بن ثابت، واسامة بن زيد، قالوا قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بمعنى حديث شعبة

Ibrahim b. Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas reported:Usama b. Zaid and Sa'd had been sitting and they had been conversing and they said this hadith

وحدثنا عثمان بن ابي شيبة، واسحاق بن ابراهيم، كلاهما عن جرير، عن الاعمش، عن حبيب، عن ابراهيم بن سعد بن ابي وقاص، قال كان اسامة بن زيد وسعد جالسين يتحدثان فقالا قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بنحو حديثهم

This hadith has been transmitted by Ibrahim b. Sa'd b. Malik on the authority of his father

وحدثنيه وهب بن بقية، اخبرنا خالد، - يعني الطحان - عن الشيباني، عن حبيب، بن ابي ثابت عن ابراهيم بن سعد بن مالك، عن ابيه، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم . بنحو حديثهم

Abdullah b. 'Abbas reported:Umar b. Khattab set out for Syria. As he came at Sargh (a town by the side of Hijaz on the way to Syria), there met him the commander of the forces, Abu Ubaida b. Jandb, and his companions. They informed him that a scourge had broken out in Syria. Ibn 'Abbas further reported that 'Umar said: Call to me tile earliest emigrants. So I called them. He (Hadrat 'Umar) sought their advice, and they told him that the scourge had broker, out in Syria. There was a difference of opinion (whether they should proceed further or go back to their homes in such a situation). Some of them said: You ('Umar) have set forth for a task, and, therefore, we would not advise you to go back, whereas some of them said: You have along with you the remnants (of the sacred galaxy) of men and (the blessed) Companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), so we would not advise you to go forth towards this calamity (with such eminent persons and thus expose them deliberately to a danger). He (Hadrat 'Umar) said: You can now go away. He said: Call to me the Ansar. So I called them to him, and he consulted them, and they trod the same path as was trodden by the Muhajirin, and they differed in their opinions as they had differed. He said: Now, you can go. He again said: Call to me the old persons of the Quraish who had migrated before the Victory (that is the Victory of Mecca), so I called them (and Hadrat 'Umar consulted them) and not even two persons differed (from the opinion held by the earlier delegates). They said: Our opinion is that you better go back along with the people and do not make them go to this scourge, So 'Umar made announcement to the people: In the morning I would be on the back of my side. So they (set forth in the morning), whereupon Abu 'Ubaida b. Jarrah said: Are you going to run away from the Divine Decree? Thereupon 'Umar said: Had it been someone else to say this besides you! 'Umar (in fact) did not approve of his opposing (this decision) and he said: Yes, we are running from the Divine Decree (to the) Divine Decree. You should think if there had been camels for you and you happened to get down in a valley having two sides, one of them covered with verdure and the other being barren, would you not (be doing) according to the Divine Decree if you graze them in verdure? And in case you graze them in the barren land (even then you would be grazing them) according to the Divine Decree. There happened to come 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf and he had been absent in connection with some of his needs. He said: I have with me a knowledge of it, that I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: If you hear of its presence (the presence of plague) in a land, don't enter it, but if it spreads in the land where you are, don't fly from it. Thereupon 'Umar b. Khattab praised Allah and then went back?

This hadith has been reported on the authority of Ma'mar with the same chain of transmitters but with this addition:" Do you think that he would graze in the barren land but would abandon the green land? Would you not attribute it to be a failing on his part? He said: Yes. He said: Then proceed. And he moved on until he came to Medina. And he said to me: This is the right place, or he said: That is the destination if Allah so wills

وحدثنا اسحاق بن ابراهيم، ومحمد بن رافع، وعبد بن حميد، قال ابن رافع حدثنا وقال الاخران، اخبرنا عبد الرزاق، اخبرنا معمر، بهذا الاسناد . نحو حديث مالك وزاد في حديث معمر قال وقال له ايضا ارايت انه لو رعى الجدبة وترك الخصبة اكنت معجزه قال نعم . قال فسر اذا . قال فسار حتى اتى المدينة فقال هذا المحل . او قال هذا المنزل ان شاء الله

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Harith with a slight variation of wording

وحدثنيه ابو الطاهر، وحرملة بن يحيى، قالا اخبرنا ابن وهب، اخبرني يونس، عن ابن شهاب، بهذا الاسناد غير انه قال ان عبد الله بن الحارث حدثه . ولم يقل عبد الله بن عبد الله

Amir b. Rabi'ah reported:'Umar went to Syria and as he came to Sargh, information was given to him that an epidemic had broken out in Syria. 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf narrated to him that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said: When you hear of its presence in a land, don't move towards it, and when it breaks out in a land and you are therein, then don't run away from it. So 'Umar b. Khattab came back from Sargh. Salim b. 'Abdullah reported that 'Umar went back, along with people on hearing the hadith reported on the authority of 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf

وحدثنا يحيى بن يحيى، قال قرات على مالك عن ابن شهاب، عن عبد الله بن، عامر بن ربيعة ان عمر، خرج الى الشام فلما جاء سرغ بلغه ان الوباء قد وقع بالشام . فاخبره عبد الرحمن بن عوف ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال " اذا سمعتم به بارض فلا تقدموا عليه . واذا وقع بارض وانتم بها فلا تخرجوا فرارا منه " . فرجع عمر بن الخطاب من سرغ . وعن ابن شهاب عن سالم بن عبد الله ان عمر انما انصرف بالناس من حديث عبد الرحمن بن عوف

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:There is no infection, no safar, no hama. A desert Arab said: Allah's Messenger, how is it that when the camel is in the sand it is like a deer-then a camel afflicted with scab mixes with it and it is affected by sub? He (the Holy Prophet) said: Who infected the first one? Note: The majority of scholars interpret this to mean that these things in and of themselves do not transmit or cause harm through supernatural or hidden means but that Allah is ultimately in control and any fearful superstition around these is false

حدثني ابو الطاهر، وحرملة بن يحيى، - واللفظ لابي الطاهر - قالا اخبرنا ابن وهب، اخبرني يونس، قال ابن شهاب فحدثني ابو سلمة بن عبد الرحمن، عن ابي، هريرة حين قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم " لا عدوى ولا صفر ولا هامة " . فقال اعرابي يا رسول الله فما بال الابل تكون في الرمل كانها الظباء فيجيء البعير الاجرب فيدخل فيها فيجربها كلها قال " فمن اعدى الاول

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:There is no transitive disease, no evil omen, no safar, no hama. A desert Arab said: Allah's, Messenger.... The rest of the hadith is the same

وحدثني محمد بن حاتم، وحسن الحلواني، قالا حدثنا يعقوب، - وهو ابن ابراهيم بن سعد - حدثنا ابي، عن صالح، عن ابن شهاب، اخبرني ابو سلمة بن عبد الرحمن، وغيره، ان ابا هريرة، قال ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال " لا عدوى ولا طيرة ولا صفر ولا هامة " . فقال اعرابي يا رسول الله . بمثل حديث يونس