Husain bin 'Abdur-Rahman said:
I was with Sa’eed bin Jubair and he said: Who among you saw the shooting star last night? I said: I did. Then I said: I was not praying, but I was stung by a scorpion. He said: What did you do? I said: I asked someone to recite ruqyah for me. He said: What made you do that? I said: A hadeeth which ash-Sha'bi narrated to us from Buraidah al-Aslami, who said: There should be no ruqyah except for the evil eye or a fever. Sa’eed - meaning Ibn Jubair - said: He who acts according to what he has heard has done well. Then he said: Ibn 'Abbas (رضي الله عنه) told us that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “The nations were shown to me and I saw a Prophet with a group of men, a Prophet with one or two men, and a Prophet with no one with him. Then a huge multitude was shown to me, and I thought that they were my ummah, but it was said to me, ‘This is Moosa and his people. But look at the horizon.’ I looked, and there was a huge multitude. Then it was said to me: ‘Look at the other horizon,’ and there was (another) huge multitude. It was said to me: ‘This is your ummah, and among them are seventy thousand who will enter Paradise without being called to account or punished.’" Then the Prophet (ﷺ) got up and went into his house, and the people started discussing and said: Who are those who will enter Paradise without being called to account or being punished? Some of them said: Perhaps they are the ones who accompanied the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Some said: Perhaps they are those who were born in Islam and never associated anything with Allah. And they mentioned several ideas. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out and said: “What are you discussing?" They told him, and he said: “They are the ones who did not use cautery or ask anyone to perform ruqyah for them, and were not superstitious, and they put their trust in their Lord." ‘Ukkashah bin Mihsan stood up and said: Will I be one of them, O Messenger of Allah? He said: “You will be one of them.” Another man stood up and said: Will I be one of them, O Messenger of Allah? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “‘Ukkashah has beaten you to it."
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- Arabic/English book
- Book 25, Hadith 2448