Cure with wheat

54. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Abdul Aziz Bin Al-Muhtady, from Yunus Bin Abdul Rahmaan, from Dawood Bin Zurby who said: ‘I fell ill in Al-Medina with intense illness, and that (news) reached Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام. So he عليه الصلاة والسلام wrote to me: ‘It has reached me عليه الصلاة والسلام (news of) your illness. Buy one Sa’a of wheat, then lie down on your back and scatter it upon your chest a scattering and say, ‘Our Allah عز وجل! I hereby ask You عز وجل by Your عز وجل Name which the restless (Al-Muztar i.e. Al-Qaim عليه الصلاة والسلام) asks You عز وجل to Remove the adversities, and Enable him عليه الصلاة والسلام in the earth and Make him عليه الصلاة والسلام as Your عز وجل Caliph upon Your عز وجل creatures, and send greetings upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and upon the People عليه الصلاة والسلام of his صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم Household, and Cure me from my illness’. Then sit straight and gather the wheat which is around you and say the like of that (again) and distribute one Mudd by one Mudd to each of the poor and say the like of that (again)’. Dawood said, ‘I did the like of that and I was as if I had been disentangled from a knot, and more than one person did that, so they all benefitted by it’.