Smallpox and chickenpox

الجدري وجدري الماء

Of the epidemic diseases that scourged nations, recorded in Arabia and beyond; the smallpox many commentators name as the epidemic that struck Abraha's People of the Elephant 1 2.

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Of the epidemic diseases that scourged nations, recorded in Arabia and beyond; the smallpox many commentators name as the epidemic that struck Abraha's People of the Elephant 1 2.

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The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· The wind that destroyed Aad· The questioning and punishment of the grave· Dreams (ahlam)· The prophets' dreams· The hereafter: the grave, resurrection and reckoning· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)

Sources

  1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  2. Sahih al-Bukhari
  • Sahih Muslim
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