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ذِكْرُ جَوَازِ احْتِجَامِ الْمَرْءِ الْمُحْرِمِ لِعِلَّةٍ تَعْتَرِضَهُ

ibnhibban:3950al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr al-Muqaddamī > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Hishām b. Ḥassān > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had himself cupped in his head when he was in the sacred state (wearing ihram due to a disease from which he was suffering. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1836)   

ابن حبّان:٣٩٥٠أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْمُقَدَّمِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ حَسَّانَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ مِنْ أَذًى كَانَ بِرَأْسِهِ»  


See similar narrations below:

Collected by Muslim, Nasāʾī, Abū Dāwūd, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
muslim:1202Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah And Zuhayr b. Ḥarb Waʾisḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Isḥāq > al-Ākharān > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > ʿAmr > Ṭāwus Waʿaṭāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās

Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ got himself cupped in the state of lhrim.  

مسلم:١٢٠٢حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَزُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ طَاوُسٍ وَعَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

nasai:2845Qutaybah > al-Layth > Abū al-Zubayr > ʿAṭāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram.  

النسائي:٢٨٤٥أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

nasai:2846Qutaybah > Sufyān > ʿAmr > Ṭāwus And ʿAṭāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet was treated by means of cupping when he was Ihram.  

النسائي:٢٨٤٦أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ طَاوُسٍ وَعَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

nasai:2848Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak > Abū al-Walīd > Yazīd b. Ibrāhīm > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

That the Prophet was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram for a contusion that he had suffered. (Diaf)  

النسائي:٢٨٤٨أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ مِنْ وَثْءٍ كَانَ بِهِ  

nasai:2849Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > Qatādah > Anas

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram on the top of the foot for contusion that he had suffered.  

النسائي:٢٨٤٩أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْقَدَمِ مِنْ وَثْءٍ كَانَ بِهِ  

abudawud:1835Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > Sufyān > ʿAmr b. Dīnār > ʿAṭāʾ And Ṭāws > Ibn ʿAbbās

Ibn ‘Abbas said The Prophet ﷺ had himself cupped when he was in the sacred state(wearing ihram).  

أبو داود:١٨٣٥حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ وَطَاوُسٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

abudawud:1836ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > Yazīd b. Hārūn > Hishām > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had himself cupped in his head when he was in the sacred state (wearing ihram due to a disease from which he was suffering.  

أبو داود:١٨٣٦حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ فِي رَأْسِهِ مِنْ دَاءٍ كَانَ بِهِ  

ahmad:2666Yūnus > Layth > Abū al-Zubayr > ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ > Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2845)  

أحمد:٢٦٦٦حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

ahmad:2716Abū Salamah al-Khuzāʿī > Layth > Abū al-Zubayr > ʿAṭāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2845)  

أحمد:٢٧١٦حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ الْخُزَاعِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا لَيْثٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

ahmad:15097Abū Qaṭan And Kathīr b. Hishām > Hishām > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram on the top of the foot for contusion that he had suffered. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2849)   

أحمد:١٥٠٩٧حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو قَطَنٍ وَكَثِيرُ بنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ مِنْ وَثْءٍ كَانَ بِوَرِكِهِ أَوْ ظَهْرِهِ  

ahmad:14280Abū Qaṭan And Rawḥ > Hishām > Rawḥ Ibn Abū ʿAbdullāh > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram on the top of the foot for contusion that he had suffered. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2849)   

أحمد:١٤٢٨٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو قَطَنٍ وَرَوْحٌ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ قَالَ رَوْحٌ ابْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ مِنْ وَثْءٍ كَانَ بِوَرِكِهِ أَوْ ظَهْرِهِ  

ahmad:2108Yazīd > Hishām And Ibn Jaʿfar > Hishām > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ performed Ihram and shaved his head. He said, "Increase the harm he had done."  

أحمد:٢١٠٨حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامٌ وَابْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ

احْتَجَمَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ احْتِجَامَةً فِيرَأْسِهِ قَالَ يَزِيدُ مِنْ أَذًى كَانَ بِهِ  

ahmad:1922Sufyān > ʿAmr Awwal Faḥafiẓnāh > Ṭāwus > Marrah > Ṭāwus > Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2845)  

أحمد:١٩٢٢حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ قَالَ عَمْرٌو أَوَّلًا فَحَفِظْنَاهُ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ وَقَالَ مَرَّةً أَخْبَرَنِي طَاوُسٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

ahmad:1923Sufyān > ʿAmr > ʿAṭāʾ And Ṭāws > Ibn ʿAbbās

Ibn ‘Abbas said The Prophet ﷺ had himself cupped when he was in the sacred state(wearing ihram). (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1835)  

أحمد:١٩٢٣وَقَدْ حَدَّثَنَاهُ سُفْيَانُ وَقَالَ عَمْرٌو عَنْ عَطَاءٍ وَطَاوُسٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ  

ahmad:3523Rawḥ > Hishām > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had himself cupped in his head when he was in the sacred state (wearing ihram due to a disease from which he was suffering. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1836)   

أحمد:٣٥٢٣حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ فِي رَأْسِهِ مِنْ صُدَاعٍ وَجَدَهُ  

ذِكْرُ الْإِبَاحَةِ لِلْمُحْرِمِ أَنْ يَحْتَجِمَ لِعِلَّةٍ تَحْدُثُ بِهِ مَا لَمْ يَقْطَعْ شَعَرًا

ibnhibban:3951Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná > Abū Khaythamah > Sufyān > ʿAmr b. Dīnār > Ṭāwus And ʿAṭāʾ > Ibn ʿAbbās

That the Messenger of Allah was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2845)  

ابن حبّان:٣٩٥١أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ وَعَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ»  

tabarani:11018ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Usayd al-Aṣbahānī > Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Karāmah > Khālid b. Makhlad > ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥuṣayn > ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Abū al-Mukhāriq > ʿAṭāʾ And Ṭāws Waʿikrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ married Maimuna while he was in the state of Ihram, (only the ceremonies of marriage were held). (Using translation from Bukhārī 1837)  

الطبراني:١١٠١٨حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أُسَيْدٍ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ كَرَامَةَ ثنا خَالِدُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْمُخَارِقِ أَخْبَرَنِي عَطَاءٌ وَطَاوُسٌ وَعِكْرِمَةُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «تَزَوَّجَ مَيْمُونَةَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ»  

tabarani:11342Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥaḍramī > Abū Kurayb > Aswad b. ʿĀmir > Ayyūb b. ʿUtbah > ʿIkrimah And ʿAṭāʾ b. Abū Rabāḥ > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ married Maimuna while he was in the state of Ihram, (only the ceremonies of marriage were held). (Using translation from Bukhārī 1837)  

الطبراني:١١٣٤٢حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَضْرَمِيُّ ثنا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ ثنا أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ وَعَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «تَزَوَّجَ مَيْمُونَةَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ»  

tabarani:11859ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Muʿallá b. Asad > Wuhayb > Ayyūb > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ got himself cupped in the state of lhrim. (Using translation from Muslim 1202)  

الطبراني:١١٨٥٩حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا مُعَلَّى بْنُ أَسَدٍ ثنا وُهَيْبٌ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «احْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ»  

tabarani:11919ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Ḥajjāj b. al-Minhāl > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Ḥumayd > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

The Prophet ﷺ married Maimuna while he was in the state of Ihram, (only the ceremonies of marriage were held). (Using translation from Bukhārī 1837)  

الطبراني:١١٩١٩حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «تَزَوَّجَ مَيْمُونَةَ وَهُمَا حرامانِ»  

tabarani:12477ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Ḥajjāj b. al-Minhāl > Ḥammād > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān b. Khuthaym > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās

[Machine] That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ married while in a state of Ihram and performed the ritual of head shaving while in a state of Ihram.  

الطبراني:١٢٤٧٧حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ ثنا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ خُثَيْمٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ «تَزَوَّجَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ وَاحْتَجَمَ وَهُوَ مُحْرِمٌ»  

nasai-kubra:3817Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak al-Baghdādī > Abū al-Walīd > Yazīd b. Ibrāhīm > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

That the Prophet was treated by means of cupping when he was in Ihram for a contusion that he had suffered. (Diaf) (Using translation from Nasāʾī 2848)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٣٨١٧أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

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