Seeking Treatment for an Illness by Giving Charity....
From Abu Umamah رضي اللّه عنـه who said that the Messenger of Allaah صلّى اللَّهُ
عليه وسلّم said:
‘Treat your sick by giving Sadaqah (charity).’
[Collected in Saheeh al-Jamia’ No. 3358 & declared
Hasan by Albaani رحمه الله]
From Ubadah bin Saamitt who said: I heard the Messenger
of Allaahصلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم saying:
‘There is no person who is afflicted with a wound on
his body, and he gives charity due to that, then Allaah expiates from him the
like of what he gave in charity.'
[Collected
by Ahmad & Albaani declared it to have an authentic Isnaad in Saheehah No.
2273]
Benefits of giving Sadaqah:
A man asked Abdullaah bin al-Mubarakرحمه
الله about
ulcers that had sprung out on his knee for about seven years, and he tried to
treat it with various treatments, he had asked doctors but to no avail. So Ibn
Mubarak said: ‘Go and dig a well in a place where people need water, indeed
I hope that there springs up water there, and by that you stop bleeding.’
The man did that and Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى cured him.’
[Taken from:
‘Seerah ‘Alaam’ 8/407]
