Mishkat al-Masabih #4381
Medicine and Spells
He reported God's messenger as saying, “There is no infection, no hama, and no serpent in a hungry belly."
A nomadic Arab asked, “Messenger of God, how is it that when camels are in the sand as if they were gazelles* and a mangy camel comes among them it gives them mange?"
God’s messenger replied, “Who infected the first one?"
Bukhari transmitted it.
* The comparison is used to indicate the clearness of their skin.
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This hadith is #4381 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Medicine and Spells. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.