Going to sorcerers for treatment

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the Jews

And they followed [instead] what the devils had recited during the reign of Solomon. It was not Solomon who disbelieved, but the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic and that which was revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Harut and Marut. But the two angels do not teach anyone unless they say, "We are a trial, so do not disbelieve [by practicing magic]." And [yet] they learn from them that by which they cause separation between a man and his wife. But they do not harm anyone through it except by permission of Allah. And the people learn what harms them and does not benefit them. But the Children of Israel certainly knew that whoever purchased the magic would not have in the Hereafter any share. And wretched is that for which they sold themselves, if they only knew.

وَاتَّبَعُوا مَا تَتْلُو الشَّيَاطِينُ عَلَى مُلْكِ سُلَيْمَانَ وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلَيْمَانُ وَلَكِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ كَفَرُوا يُعَلِّمُونَ النَّاسَ السِّحْرَ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى الْمَلَكَيْنِ بِبَابِلَ هَارُوتَ وَمَارُوتَ وَمَا يُعَلِّمَانِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ حَتَّى يَقُولاَ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلاَ تَكْفُرْ فَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُمَا مَا يُفَرِّقُونَ بِهِ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَزَوْجِهِ وَمَا هُمْ بِضَارِّينَ بِهِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلاَّ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلاَ يَنْفَعُهُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُوا لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاَقٍ وَلَبِئْسَ مَا شَرَوْا بِهِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ

[Al-Baqarah 2:102]

We are a trial, so do not disbelieve

إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلاَ تَكْفُرْ

[Al-Baqarah 2:102]

And the people learn what harms them and does not benefit them

وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلاَ يَنْفَعُهُمْ

[Al-Baqarah 2:102]

But the Children of Israel certainly knew that whoever purchased the magic would not have in the Hereafter any share

وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُوا لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاَقٍ

[Al-Baqarah 2:102]

the Jews
Ibn Abbas
al-Hasan

and the magician will not succeed wherever he is."

وَلاَ يُفْلِحُ السَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَى

[Taha 20:69]

Abu Hurayrah

Avoid the seven great destructive sins." The people enquire, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! What are they? "He said, "To join others in worship along with Allah, to practice sorcery, to kill the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause, (according to Islamic law), to eat up Riba (usury), to eat up an orphan's wealth, to give back to the enemy and fleeing from the battlefield at the time of fighting, and to accuse, chaste women, who never even think of anything touching chastity and are good believers.

اجتنبوا السبع الموبقات قالوا : يا رسول الله : وما هن ؟ قال : الشرك بالله ، والسحر ، وقتل النفس التي حرم الله إلا بالحق ، وأكل الربا ، وأكل مال اليتيم ، والتولي يوم الزحف ، وقذف المحصنات المؤمنات الغافلات

Sahih al-Bukhari 2766

Abu Hurayrah

Whoever goes to a diviner or a soothsayer and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

من أتى عرافًا أو كاهنًا فصدقه بما يقول فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد - صلى الله عليه وسلم -

Sunan al-Bayhaqi 15:740

Ahmad
and al-Hakim
al-Bazzar
and Abu Ya'la
Ibn Mas'ud

Whoever goes to a diviner or a sorcerer or a fortune-teller and asks him and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

من أتى عرافًا أو ساحرًا أو كاهنًا فسأله فصدقه بما يقول فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد - صلى الله عليه وسلم -

Sunan al-Bayhaqi 15:741

'Umar ibn al-Khattab

It is not one of us who takes an omen or has an omen taken for him, or does divination or has divination done for him, or does sorcery or has sorcery done for him, and whoever goes to a fortune-teller and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

ليس منا من تطير أو تطير له ، أو تكهن أو تكهن له ، أو سحر أو سحر له ، ومن أتى كاهنًا فصدقه بما قال فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد - صلى الله عليه وسلم -

al-Bazzar
al-Tirmidhi
Jundub

The punishment of the Sahir is a strike of the sword.

حد الساحر ضربة بالسيف

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1460Da'if (Darussalam)

'Umar ibn al-Khattab
Jaz' ibn Mu'awiyah
al-Ahnaf ibn Qays
Malik
Hafsa
al-Bukhari
Abu 'Uthman
al-Walid
Jundub al-Azdi
'Uthman ibn 'Affan
and Ibn 'Umar
and Abu Musa
and Qays ibn Sa'd
'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz
The Shaykh al-Shanqiti says: (These reports, of which it is not known that any of the Companions denied them, supported by the elevated hadith mentioned, are the argument of the one who said that he is to be killed absolutely, and the reports mentioned and the hadith in them indicate that he is to be killed, even if he did not reach the point of
Jundub
Umar
al-Bukhari
Abu Hurayrah

Allah does not send down any disease, but He also sends down the cure.

ما أنزل الله داء إلا أنزل له شفاء

Sunan Ibn Majah 3439Sahih (Darussalam)

Muslim
Jabir

There is a remedy for every malady, and when the remedy is applied to the disease it is cured with the permission of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious.

لكل داء دواء ، فإذا أصيب دواء الداء برأ بإذن الله - عز وجل-

Sahih Muslim 2204

He was asked about the untying of knots (nashrah) and he said: It is from the work of Satan.

سئل عن النشرة فقال : هي من عمل الشيطان

Ahmad
and Abu Dawud

There is no harm in the invocation as long as there is no polytheism in it.

لا بأس بالرقى ما لم يكن فيها شرك

Sahih Muslim 2200

Muslim

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