Uprooted by the flu
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 576
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ وَ النَّوْفَلِيِّ وَ غَيْرِهِمَا يَرْفَعُونَهُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) لَا يَتَدَاوَى مِنَ الزُّكَامِ وَ يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا وَ بِهِ عِرْقٌ مِنَ الْجُذَامِ فَإِذَا أَصَابَهُ الزُّكَامُ قَمَعَهُ.
577. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Bakr bin Salih, and Al-Nowfali, and someone else with an unbroken chain going up to Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام, the following: Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام has said: ‘The Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم never used to cure himself صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم from the flu, and would say: ‘There is no one except that he has a vein from the leprosy, so if he is struck by the flu, it suppresses it’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/582)
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