When the Imam was ill

87. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad Al-Jowhary, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, who has said: Abu Ibrahim عليه الصلاة والسلام having said to me: ‘I عليه الصلاة والسلام have had fever for seven months and my عليه الصلاة والسلام son has had fever for twelve months and it has been increasing for us. I عليه الصلاة والسلام feel that it does not affect the whole body. Sometimes it affects in the upper part of the body and does not affect in the lower of it, and sometimes it affects in the lower part of it and does not affect in all of the upper body’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you. If you عليه الصلاة والسلام allow me, I would narrate to you عليه الصلاة والسلام a Hadeeth from Abu Baseer from your عليه الصلاة والسلام grandfather عليه الصلاة والسلام when he عليه الصلاة والسلام had fever, he عليه الصلاة والسلام sought help by the cold water. So he عليه الصلاة والسلام would take two pieces of cloth, one immerse it in the cold water and one on the body and rotate between them. Then he عليه الصلاة والسلام would call out until his عليه الصلاة والسلام voice would be heard at the door of the house; ‘يَا فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ’ ‘O Fatima عليها السلام daughter عليه الصلاة والسلام of the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم’. He عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘You have spoken the truth’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you عليه الصلاة والسلام. Have you عليه الصلاة والسلام not found a cure for the fever?’ So he عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘We عليه الصلاة والسلام have not found a cure for it except for the supplication and the cold water. I عليه الصلاة والسلام complained of it, so Muhammad Bin Ibrahim sent a doctor to me for it. So he came to me عليه الصلاة والسلام with a medicine which made me عليه الصلاة والسلام vomit, so I refused to drink it, because if I vomit, all of my عليه الصلاة والسلام joints hurt’.