Medicine and Spells

Mishkat al-Masabih #4337

كتاب الطب والرقى

وَعَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «الْعَيْنُ حَقٌّ فَلَوْ كَانَ شَيْءٌ سَابَقَ الْقَدَرِ سَبَقَتْهُ الْعَيْنُ وَإِذَا اسْتُغْسِلْتُمْ فاغسِلوا». رَوَاهُ مُسلم

Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Prophet as saying:

“The evil eye is genuine If anything could get ahead of the decree the evil eye would do so. And when you are asked to bathe do so.”*

Muslim transmitted it.

* An indication of the practice here intended will be found in the tradition of Abu Umama near the end of Section II of this chapter.

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