When God’s messenger was praying one night he placed his hand on the ground and was stung by a scorpion, so he struck it with his sandal and killed it. Then when he departed he said:
“God curse the scorpion! It does not leave alone one who is praying or anyone else, or a prophet or anyone else.”
He then called for salt and water, and putting it in a vessel he began to pour it over his finger where it had stung him and wipe it, seeking refuge in God by reciting the Mu’awwidhatan.
Baihaqi transmitted the two traditions in Shu’ab al-iman.
Narrated Abu Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying:
“The stomach is the tank of the body and the veins go down to it. When the stomach is healthy the veins come back in a healthy condition, but when it is in a bad condition they return diseased.”
My people sent me to Umm Salama with a bowl of water. Whenever anyone was smitten by the evil eye or anything else he sent her a basin, and she took out some hairs of God’s messenger which she kept in a little silver bell.* She moved it about for him in the water and he drank some of it. I looked into the little bell and saw some red hairs.
Bukhari transmitted it.
* Mirqat, iv, 515, says that although the word means a bell, it may here be used of a small box in the shape of a bell. This is the kind of bell that would be used on a tambourine.
‘A'isha told that God’s messenger asked her, “Have the mugharribun been seen among you?”
She asked what that meant and he replied, “They are those in whom is a strain of the jinn.”*
Abu Dawud transmitted it.
* Mirqat, iv, 514, says this happens if a man neglects to mention God when he has sexual intercourse with his wife.
