Book 26. KITAB AS-SALAM
(Book on Salutions and Greetings)
Chapter
- The rider should first greet the pedestrian
and the small number should greet the large number of persons
- The duty that one owes on the roadside is to respond
the greeting of as-Salam-u-'Alaikum
- The right of a Muslim upon another Muslim is that his
greeting should be responded
- Prohibition of saying first as-Salam-u-Alaikum to the
people of the book, and how their salutations should be responded
- Excellence of greeting the children
- Permissibility of giving permission to enter the house
(by raising the curtain or making some other signs like it)
- Permissibility of women going out in the fields for
easing themselves
- It is prohibited to sit with a strange lady in privacy
or to enter her house when she is alone
- It is excellent to tell a man when one is accompanied
by one's wife or Mahram lady that she is one's wife or Mahram and to remove his doubt
- If a person comes to a meeting and finds space there he
should sit there, otherwise he should depart
- If a person goes away from the place occupied by him, he
has a better right to occupy it after coming back
- The entrance of the Eunuch (in a house where there are
female inmates) is prohibited
- Permission of seating a woman on the ride behind one's
back if one finds her completely exhausted in the way
- It is prohibited for two persons to converse secretly
without the consent of the third one
- Medicine and spell
- Magic and spell
- Poison
- The excellence of curing the patient with the help of
incantation
- Curing of the patient with the recitation of
Mu'awwidhatan (Suras CXIII., CXIV)
- The excellence of curing (with the help of incantation)
the influence of the evil eye and small pustules and the poison (especially of snake and
scorpion)
- Permissibility of getting reward for incantations from
the words of the Qur'an
- Excellence of placing one's hands at the spot of pain at the time of practising incantation
- Seeking refuge against satan from the evil promptings in prayer
- There is a remedy for every malady and its excellence to get treatment
- Disapproval of Applying Remedy by Pouring the medicine in the mouth forcibly.
- Treatment with the help of Indians Aloeswood
- Remedy by applying Nigella seed
- Talbina gives confort to the patient
- Remedy with help of honey
- Plague, ill omen and magic
- There is no inferction, no evil omen, no Hama, no safar, no star promising rain, no ghoul and the ill should not go to those who are healthy
- Omen, divinations and that which is unlucky
- Kahanat (Divination) is prohibited and it is forbidden to go to Kahin
- It is advisable to avoid mixing with the leper
- Killing of snakes
- The desirability of killing a Gecko (House Lizard)
- Prohibition of killing the ants
- It is forbidden to kill the cat
- The merit of supplying water and food to animals