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FEATURED ARTICLE The virtues of Ruqiah and reciting them Praise be to Allaah. 1 There is nothing wrong with the Muslim reciting ruqyah for himself. That is permissible; indeed it is a good Sunnah, for the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) recited ruqyah for himself, and some of his companions recited ruqyah for themselves. It was narrated that Aa ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) said: When the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was ill, he would recite al-mi wadhatayn over himself and spit drily. When his pain grew intense, I recited over him and wiped him with his own hand, seeking its barakah (blessing). Narrated by al- Bukhaari, 4728; Muslim, 2192 With regard to the hadeeth narrated by Muslim (220), according to which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) described the seventy thousand of this ummah who will enter Paradise without being brought to account or punished, and in which it says: They are those who did not recite ruqyah or ask for ruqyah to be done, and they did not believe in bad omens and they put their trust in their Lord the phrase they did not recite ruqyah is the words of the narrator, not of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Hence al-bukhaari narrated this hadeeth (no. 5420) and he did not mention this phrase. Shaykh al-islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: These people are praised because they did not ask anyone to recite ruqyah for them, and ruqyah is a type of du aa, so they did not ask others to pray for them. The phrase and they did not recite 5 ruqyah which is mentioned in the hadeeth is a mistake (on the part of the narrator), for their ruqyah for themselves and for others is a good deed. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) recited ruqyah for himself and for others; he did not ask anyone to recite ruqyah for him. His reciting ruqyah for himself and others was like his making du aa for himself and others; this is something that is enjoined, for all the Prophets asked of Allaah and prayed to Him, as Allaah tells us in the stories of Adam, Ibraaheem, Moosa and others. - Majmoo al-fataawa, 1/182 Ruqyah is one of the greatest remedies that the believer should use regularly. 2 With regard to the du aa that is prescribed for the Muslim to say if he wants to recite ruqyah for himself or for someone else, there are many such du aa s, the greatest of which are al-faatihah and al-mi wadhatayn. A group of the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) set out on a journey and travelled until they made came near one of the Arab tribes. They asked them for hospitality but they refused to do so. Then the leader of that tribe was stung, and they tried everything but nothing helped him. Then some of them said, Why don t you go to those people who are staying (nearby)? Maybe some of them have something. So they went to them and said, O people, our leader has been stung and we have tried everything and nothing helped him. Do any of you have something? One of them said, Yes, by Allaah. I will perform ruqyah for him, but by Allaah we asked you for hospitality and you did not give us anything, so we will not perform ruqyah for you unless you give us something in return. So they agreed on a flock of sheep, then he started to blow on him and recite Al-hamdu Lillaahi Rabb il- Aalameen. Then he recovered quickly from his complaint and started walking, and there was nothing wrong with him. It was narrated that Aa ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) said: When the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was ill, he would recite al-mi wadhatayn over himself and spit drily. When his pain grew intense, I recited over him and wiped him with his own hand, seeking its barakah (blessing). Narrated by al- Bukhaari, 4728; Muslim, 2192 Muslim (2202) narrated from Uthmaan ibn Abi l-aas that he complained to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) about pain that he had felt in his body from the time he had become Muslim. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to him: Put your hand on the part of your body where you feel pain and say Bismillaah (in the name of Allaah) three times, then say seven times, A oodhu bi izzat-illaah wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajid wa uhaadhir (I seek refuge in the glory and power of Allaah from the evil of what I feel and worry about). Al-Tirmidhi (2080) added: He said, I did that, and Allaah took away what I had been suffering, and I kept on enjoining my family and others to do that. (Classed as saheeh by al-albaani in Saheeh al-tirmidhi, 1696) And Allaah knows best. Original source: https://islamqa.info/en/3476
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