Nafi' reported that when Ibn 'Umar visited someone who was ill,
he would ask him how he was. When he left him, he would say, "May Allah
choose what is best for you." He did not say more than that.
حَدَّثَنَا مُعَلَّى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم دَخَلَ عَلَى أَعْرَابِيٍّ يَعُودُهُ، قَالَ: وَكَانَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِذَا دَخَلَ عَلَى مَرِيضٍ يَعُودُهُ قَالَ: لاَ بَأْسَ طَهُورٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ، قَالَ: ذَاكَ طَهُورٌ، كَلاَّ بَلْ هِيَ حُمَّى تَفُورُ، أَوْ تَثُورُ، عَلَى شَيْخٍ كَبِيرٍ، تُزِيرُهُ الْقُبُورَ، قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم: فَنَعَمْ إِذًا.
Ibn 'Abbas reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, went to visit a bedouin who was ill. When the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, visited someone who was ill, he would say,
'There is no harm in it. It is a purification, Allah willing." That man
then said, "A purification! No, rather it is a fever which boils (or appears)
in an old man and will cause him to visit the graces." The Prophet, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Then yes (it is)".
'Amr ibn Sa'id said, "Al-Hajjaj visited Ibn 'Umar while I was with
him, He asked, 'How are you?' 'Sound,' he replied. He asked, 'What is wrong
with you?' He replied, "I have been afflicted by the business of carrying
arms on a day when it is not lawful to carry them.' He was referring to
al-Hajjaj.*"
Narrated 'A'isha (ra) said, "When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to Madina, Abu Bakr (ra) and Bilal (ra) came down with a fever. I visited them and asked, 'Father, how are you? Bilal, how are you?' When Abu Bakr's (ra) fever worsened, he said:
"Every body is given the prayer to arise healthy among his people, yet death is nearer to him than his shoe-laces." And whenever Bilal’s (ra) fever subsided, he would recite, "Would that I know that I will ever spend a night in a valley surrounded by Izkhir and Jaleel (two kinds of sweet smelling grass). And that I will arrive one day to the waters of Majannah and observe (the mountains) Shamah and Tafeel" Ayshah (ra) went to the Prophet M, and informed him of what transpired with these two men. Thereupon, he made this supplication: "O Allah, make us love Madinah as dearly as we love Makkah, or more than that. O Allah! Make it healthy for us and bless for us it sa' and mudd. And remove its fever putting it in al-Juhfah"
