The Book of Visiting the Sick

Al-Bara' bin `Azib (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) has ordered us to visit the sick, to follow the funeral (of a dea...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Every Muslim has five rights over another Muslim (i.e., he ha...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Verily, Allah, the Exalted, and Glorious will say on the Day ...

Abu Musa (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Visit the sick, feed the hungry, and (arrange for the) release of...

Thauban (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who visits his brother in Faith, will remain engaged in picking the fresh ...

'Ali bin Abu Talib (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying, "When a Muslim visits a sick Muslim at dawn, s...

Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: A young Jewish boy who was in the service of the Prophet (ﷺ) fell ill. The Prophet (ﷺ) went to visit hi...

`Aishah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: When a person complained to the Prophet (ﷺ) about an ailment or suffered from a sore or a wound, the...

'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: When the Prophet (ﷺ) visited any ailing member of his family, he would touch the sick person with hi...

Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I said to Thabit (May Allah had Mercy upon him) Should I not perform Ruqyah (i.e., recite supplication ...

Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited me during my illness and supplicated, "O Allah! Cure ...

Abu 'Abdullah bin Abul-'as (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I complained to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about a pain I had in my body. The Mes...

Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who visits a sick person who is not on the point of death and supplica...

Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) visited a bedouin who was sick. Whenever he visited an ailing person, he would s...

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Jibril (Gabriel) came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: "O Muhammad (ﷺ)! Do you feel sick?" H...

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri and Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "If a person says: 'La ilaha illallah...

Ibn `Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: When `Ali (May Allah be pleased with him) came out after visiting the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) dur...

`Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: While the Prophet (ﷺ) was reclining against me (during his last illness) I heard him saying: "Allahu...

'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he was at the point of death. He had a drinking bowl with wate...

`Imran bin Husain (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: A woman belonging to the Juhainah tribe came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) after having c...

Ibn Mas`ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I visited the Prophet ({ﷺ) while he was suffering. I said: "(O Messenger of Allah!) You suffer to...

Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit me when I had a severe pain. I said: "I am suff...

Al-Qasim bin Muhammad reported 'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) said: "Oh, my head." (It was hurting due to pain.) Thereupon the Prophet (ﷺ) sa...

Mu`adh bin Jabal (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "He whose last words are: `La ilaha illallah' (There is no...

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Exhort your dying men to recite: 'La ilaha illallah' (...

Umm Salamah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited Abu Salamah (May Allah be pleased with him) when his eyes wer...

Umm Salamah (May Allah be pleased with her): The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "When you visit a sick or a dying person, you should utter good words be...

Umm Salamah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying, "When a person suffers from a calamity and utters: 'I...

Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "When a man's child dies, Allah, the Exalted, asks His ...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Allah, the Exalted, says: 'I have no reward except Jannah for...

Usamah bin Zaid (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: A daughter of the Prophet (ﷺ) sent a message to him that her son was at his last breath, an...

Ibn 'Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) visited Sa'd bin 'Ubadah during his illness. He was accompanied by 'Ab...

Usamah bin Zaid (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: A grandson (child of the daughter) of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was presented to him while ...

Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to his son Ibrahim (May Allah be pleased with him) when he was breathin...

Abu Rafi` Aslam (May Allah be pleased with him), the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "He who wash...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Whoever follows the funeral procession and offers the funeral...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Whosoever attends the funeral of a Muslim believing and hopin...

Umm Atiyyah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: We (womenfolk) were prohibited from accompanying a funeral procession, but we were not compelled...

'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "If a group of Muslims numbering a hundred perform funeral prayer o...

Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "If a Muslim dies and forty people, who do not associate anythi...

Marthad bin 'Abdullah Al-Yazni reported: When Malik bin Hubairah (May Allah be pleased with him) offered a funeral prayer and found a small number of ...

Abu 'Abdur-Rahman 'Auf bin Malik (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered a funeral prayer and I memorized his sup...

Abu Hurairah, Abu Qatadah, and Abu Ibrahim Al-Ash-hali (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) offered a funeral prayer and said: "...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: "When you pray over the dead, make a sincere supplic...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) supplicated in course of funeral prayer: "Allahumma Anta Rabbuha, wa Anta khala...

Wathilah bin Al-Asqa' (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led the funeral prayer of a Muslim man in our presence, and...

'Abdullah bin Abu Aufa (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: While offering the funeral prayer of one of his daughters, he recited four Takbir, a...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "Hurry up with the dead body (for its burial), for if it is pio...

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "When a dead body is placed on a bier and men carry it on their sh...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The soul of the deceased believer remains pending on account of the debt...

Hussain bin Wahwah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: When Talhah bin Al-Bara' (May Allah be pleased with him) fell ill, the Prophet (ﷺ) came t...

`Ali (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: We were accompanying a funeral procession in Baqi` Al-Gharqad (graveyard in Al-Madinah) when the Messen...

Abu `Amr (also called Abu `Abdullah and also Abu Laila) from `Uthman bin `Affan (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: After the burial of a dead m...

'Amr bin Al-'as (May Allah be pleased with him) used to say: "When you have buried me, keep standing near my grave till (for the time it takes to) a c...

'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: A man said to the Prophet (ﷺ): "My mother has died suddenly. I think that if she were able to talk (...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "When a man dies, his deeds come to an end, except for three: ...

Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Some Companions happened to pass by a funeral procession (bier) and they praised him (the deceased). Th...

Abul-Aswad (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I came to Al- Madinah, and while I was sitting beside 'Umar bin Al-Khattab, a funeral procession ...

Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Any Muslim who loses three children before they reach the age of matu...

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "A Muslim whose three children die (in infancy) will not be to...

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: A woman came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Only men ben...

Narrated Ibn 'Umar: Ibn `Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and his Companions reached Al-Hijr, the dwell...