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Epidemic disease

الوباء

The general disease spreading through a land; the Prophet ﷺ said: if it falls in a land you are in, do not flee it, and do not enter it — a divinely-wise quarantine before the science of contagion 1 2.

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The general disease spreading through a land; the Prophet said: if it falls in a land you are in, do not flee it, and do not enter it — a divinely-wise quarantine before the science of contagion 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)

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  1. Sahih al-Bukhari
  2. Sahih Muslim
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