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How to reconcile the hadith: “The seventy thousand did not seek treatment” with taking prescribed means?

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Question:
I ask Allah for your well-being, Your Eminence, the Shaykh. This questioner says: May Allah preserve you, the Exalted. It is difficult for me to reconcile the encouragement to take beneficial, prescribed means with the encouragement to refrain from certain types of treatment, as in the hadith of the seventy thousand. How are these reconciled?

Answer:
Yes, the seventy thousand did not leave any means except those that are disliked or forbidden. The seventy thousand did not leave anything except disliked means, which is cauterization, or asking people for help, which is disliked; or forbidden means, which is taking an omen as a bad sign. They did not seek healing by ruqyah, nor did they undergo cauterization, nor did they take an omen as a bad sign. Did the seventy thousand leave behind either something forbidden or something disliked? As for the beneficial means that contain no dislike or prohibition, did the seventy thousand leave them? Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/1346] كيف يُجمع بين حديث: ترك السبعين للتداوي، وفعل الأسباب المشروعة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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