Narrations About Hijama
The best medicine with which you treat yourselves is Hijama, or it is one of the best of your medicines.
The best treatment is cupping, it removes blood, lightens the back and sharpen the eyesight.
If there is anything good in the medicines with which you treat yourselves, it is in the incision of the Hijama therapist, or a drink of honey or cauterization with fire, but I do not like to be cauterized.
Jaabir ibn Abdullah y reported that the Messenger (PBUH) said, “Indeed in cupping (hijama) there is a cure.”
Abu Hurairah(r.a) reported that the Messenger (PBUH) said, “Whoever performs cupping (hijama) on the 17th, 19th or 21st day (of the Islamic, lunar month) then it is a cure for every disease.”
Abdullah ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger (SAWS) said, “I did not pass by an angel from the angels on the night journey except that they all said to me: Upon you is cupping (hijama), O Muhammad.”
In the narration reported by Abdullah ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) the angels said, “Oh Muhammad, order your Ummah (nation) with cupping (hijama).”
Jaabir ibn Abdullah y reported that the Messenger (PBUH) fell from his horse onto the trunk of a palm tree and dislocated his foot. Waki’ said, “Meaning the Messenger (PBUH) was cupped on (his foot) for bruising.”
