مسند أحمد بن حنبل
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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Chapter: Musnad Usāmah ibn Sharīk, of Kūfah (may Allah be pleased with him)
(21)
مُسْنَدُ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ شَرِيكٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ
Three-Narrator Ahadith 262
Usāmah ibn Sharīk (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Seek treatment, servants of Allah, for Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has not sent down a disease without sending down its cure alongside it, except death and old age.”
Reference:
Musnad Aḥmad 262
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ زِيَادٍ يَعْنِي الْمُطَّلِبَ بْنَ زِيَادٍ، حَدَّثَنَا زِيَادُ بْنُ عِلَاقَةَ، عَنْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ شَرِيكٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «تَدَاوَوْا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ، فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ دَاءً إِلَّا أَنْزَلَ مَعَهُ شِفَاءً، إِلَّا الْمَوْتَ وَالْهَرَمَ
| Grade: | Ṣaḥīḥ |
its isnād is Ḥasan.
Chain: Ibn Ziyād, i.e. al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād → Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah → Usāmah ibn Sharīk (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād al-Kūfī: ṣadūq, with a small number of critics noting occasional imprecision. (2) Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah al-ʿĀmirī: thiqah. (3) Usāmah ibn Sharīk al-Thaʿlabī: a Companion who settled in Kūfah. Takhrīj: Abū Dāwūd (3855); al-Tirmidhī (2038), where he grades it ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ; Ibn Mājah (3436). Commentary: This is one of the foundational texts of Prophetic medicine (al-ṭibb al-nabawī), establishing both the religious permissibility and encouragement of seeking medical treatment, countering any notion that illness must be endured passively as an act of pure reliance on Allah (tawakkul) without means, while acknowledging that death and the natural decline of old age lie outside the reach of any cure, being fixed decrees rather than treatable afflictions.
Chain: Ibn Ziyād, i.e. al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād → Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah → Usāmah ibn Sharīk (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād al-Kūfī: ṣadūq, with a small number of critics noting occasional imprecision. (2) Ziyād ibn ʿIlāqah al-ʿĀmirī: thiqah. (3) Usāmah ibn Sharīk al-Thaʿlabī: a Companion who settled in Kūfah. Takhrīj: Abū Dāwūd (3855); al-Tirmidhī (2038), where he grades it ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ; Ibn Mājah (3436). Commentary: This is one of the foundational texts of Prophetic medicine (al-ṭibb al-nabawī), establishing both the religious permissibility and encouragement of seeking medical treatment, countering any notion that illness must be endured passively as an act of pure reliance on Allah (tawakkul) without means, while acknowledging that death and the natural decline of old age lie outside the reach of any cure, being fixed decrees rather than treatable afflictions.
| Reference | : Three-Narrator Ahadith 262 |
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