We were in our country when flags and banners were raised. I said: What is this? The (the people) said: This is the banner of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. So I came to him. He was (sitting) under a tree. A sheet of cloth was spread for him and he was sitting on it. His Companions were gathered around him. I sat with them. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم mentioned illness and said: When a believer is afflicted by illness and Allah cures him of it, it serves as an atonement for his previous sins and a warning to him for the future. But when a hypocrite becomes ill and is then cured, he is like a camel which has been tethered and then let loose by its owners, but does not know why they tethered it and why they let it loose. A man from among those around him asked: Messenger of Allah, what are illnesses? I swear by Allah, I never fell ill. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Get up and leave us. You do not belong to our number. When we were with him, a man came to him. He had a sheet of cloth and something in his hand. He turned his attention to him and said: Messenger of Allah, when I saw you, I turned towards you. I saw a group of trees and heard the sound of fledglings. I took them and put them in my garment. Their mother then came and began to hover round my head. I showed them to her, and she fell on them. I wrapped them with my garment. They are now with me. He said: Put them away from you. So I put them away, but their mother stayed with them. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said to his companions: Are you surprised at the affection of the mother for her young? They said: Yes, Messenger of Allah. He said: I swear by Him Who has sent me with the Truth, Allah is more affectionate to His servants than a mother to her young ones. Take them back put them and where you took them from when their mother should have been with them. So he took them back.

I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: When Allah has previously decreed for a servant a rank which he has not attained by his action, He afflicts him in his body, or his property or his children. Abu Dawud said: Ibn Nufail added in his version: He then enables him to endure that. The agreed version goes: So that He may bring him to the rank previously decreed from him by Allah.

I heard the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم many times say: When a servant of Allah is accustomed to do a good work, then becomes ill or goes on journey, what was accustomed to do when he was well and staying at home will be recorded for him.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم visited me while I was sick. He said: Be glad, Umm al-Ala for Allah removes the sins of a Muslim for his illness as fire removes the dross of gold and silver.

I said: Messenger of Allah, I know the severest verse in the Quran. He asked: What is that verse. Aishah? She replied: Allah's words: If anyone does evil, he will be requited for it. He said: Do you know Aishah, that when a believer is afflicted with a calamity or a thorn, it serves as an atonement for his evil deed. He who is called to account will be punished. She said: Does Allah not say: He truly will recieve an easy reckoning. He said: This is the presentation, Aishah رضی اللہ عنہا. If anyone criticized in reckoning, he will be punished. Abu Dawud said: This is the version of Ibn Bashshar. He said: Ibn Abi Mulaikah narrated to us.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم went out to visit Abdullah bin Ubayy during his illness of which he died. When he entered upon him, he realised death on him. He said: I used to forbid you from the love of Jews. He (Abdullah) said: Asad bin Zurarah hated them. So what (the benefited) ? When he died, his son came and said: Prophet of Allah, Abdullah bin Ubayy has died, give me your shirt, so that I shroud him in it. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم took off his shirt and gave it to him.

A young Jew became ill. The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم went to visit him. He sat down by his head and said to him: Accept Islam. He looked at his father who was beside him near his head, and he said: Obey Abu al-Qasim. So he accepted Islam, and the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم stood up saying: Praise be to Allah Who has saved him through me from Hell.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم would visit me (during my illness) riding neither a mule nor a pony.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone performs ablution well and pays a sick-visit to his brother Muslim seeking his reward from Allah, he will be removed a distance of sixty years (kharif) from Hell. I asked: What is kharif, Abu Hamzah? He replied: A year. Abu Dawud said: Only the people of Basrah have narrated the tradition on visiting the sick after performing ablution.

If a man visits a patient in the evening, seventy thousand angels come along with him seeking forgiveness from Allah for him till the morning, and he will have a garden in the Paradise.

This version does not mention the word garden (khartf). Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by Mansur from al-Hakkam as narrated by Shubah.

The slave of al-Hasan bin Ali: Abu Musa paid a sick visit to al-Hasan bin Ali رضی اللہ عنہ . Abu Dawud said: He narrated the tradition to the same effect as narrated by Shubah. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Ali رضی اللہ عنہ from the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم without any sound manner.

When Saad bin Muadh رضی اللہ عنہ suffered affliction on the day of Trench (i.e. the battle of Trench) a man shot an arrow in the vein of his hand. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم pitched a tent for him the mosque so that he might visit him from near.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم visited me while I was suffering from pain in my eyes.

I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: When you hear that it is breaking out in a certain territory, do not go there. It it breaks out in the territory you are in, do not go out flying away from it. By it he referred to plague.

I had a complaint at Makkah. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم came to pay a sick-visit to me. He put his hand on my forehead, wiped my chest and belly, and then said: O Allah! heal up Saad and complete his immigration.

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: Feed the hungry, sick the sick and free the captive. Sufyan said: al-'ani means captive.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: If anyone visits a sick whose time (of death) has not come, and says with him seven times: I ask Allah, the Mighty, the Lord of the mighty Throne, to cure you, Allah will cure him from that disease.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: When a man comes to visit a sick person, he should say: O Allah, cure Thy servant, who may then wreak havoc on an enemy for your sake, or walk at a funeral for your sake. Abu Dawud said: Ibn As-Sarh (one of the narrators) said: Ilas-salat (To the Salat) .

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: No one of you should wish for death for any calamity that befalls him, but he should say: O Allah! cause me to live so long as my life is better for me ; and cause me to die where death is better for me.

The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: No one of you should wish for death. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition in a similar manner.

The prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: "Sudden death is a seizing by (divine) wrath."

The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم came to visit Abdullah Ibn Thabit رضی اللہ عنہ who was ill. He found that he was dominated (by the divine decree). The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم called him loudly, but he did not respond. He uttered the Quranic verse We belong to Allah and to Him do we return and he said: We have been dominated against you, Abur Rabi. Then the women cried and wept, and Ibn Atik رضی اللہ عنہ began to silence them. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Leave them, when the divine decree is made, no woman should weep. They (the people) asked: What is necessary happening, Messenger of Allah? He replied: Death. His daughter said: I hope you will be a martyr, for you have completed your preparations for jihad. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Allah Most High gave him a reward according to his intentions. What do you consider martyrdom? They said: Being killed in the cause of Allah. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: There are seven types of martyrdom in addition to being killed in Allah's cause: one who dies of plague is a martyr; one who is drowned is a martyr; one who dies of pleurisy is a martyr; one who dies of an internal complaint is a martyr; one who is burnt to death is a martyr; who one is killed by a building falling on him is a martyr; and a woman who dies while pregnant is a martyr.

Banu al-Harith bin Amir bin Nawfal bought Khubaib رضی اللہ عنہ . Khubaib killed al-Harith bin Amir on the day of Badr. Khubaib remained with them as a prisoner until they agreed on his killing. He borrowed razor form the daughter of al-Harith to shave his pubes. She let it to him. A small child of her crept to him while she was inattentive. When she same, she found him alone and the child was on this thigh and the razor was in his hand. She was terrified and he realized its effect on her. He said: Do you fear that I shall kill him ? I am not going to do that. Abu Dawud said: Shuaib bin Abi Hamzah transmitted this narrative from al-Zuhri. He said: Ubaid Allah bin Ayyash told me that the daughter of al-Harith told him that when they gathered for killing him, he borrowed a razor from her to shave (his pubes). She lent it to him.

I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say three days before his death: No one of you dies but he had good faith in Allah.