How to reconcile the hadith: (Seek treatment, O servants of Allah; for Allah has sent down a cure for every disease), and the hadith: (Those who do not seek ruqyah, nor have ruqyah performed on them, and upon their Lord they rely)

Eid Abbasi : Another question, also regarding the reconciliation of the hadith: , and another hadith: .

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

Eid Abbasi : How do we understand the two hadiths and reconcile them? Please inform us.
The reconciliation of the two hadiths and how we understand them?

The Shaykh : The first hadith is well known to all the brothers, , and in some other authentic hadiths: This medicine which He sent down, . So in this hadith there is an encouragement for Muslims to seek treatment for the diseases that befall them or may befall them, and there are many hadiths in this meaning. But it seems that some people have imagined that this hadith and what is in its meaning contradicts the authentic hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), which also says: . The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) spoke this hadith in his mosque, then he returned to his house, so his companions began to discuss and try to know who these seventy thousand are who enter Paradise "transit" without reckoning, their faces like the full moon on the night of the full moon. Some said: Who are these other than us, the Emigrants, who supported the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in difficult times? And a group said: Who are these other than the Helpers who supported him? And others said: Not these and not those, but rather our children who come after us and did not see our Prophet (peace be upon him), then they believe in him and confirm him. All this is speculation. Then the Messenger of Allah quickly came out to them to complete the story for them, where he said: . A man from the Companions named Ukashah stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah, call upon Allah to make me one of them. He said: . So another stood up and said as the first one said: Call upon Allah to make me one of them. He said (peace be upon him): Ukashah has preceded you to it.
So in this hadith, one of the characteristics of those seventy thousand who enter Paradise without reckoning is that they do not apply cautery, and there is no doubt that cautery is a type of medicine. From here, the doubt presented itself to some people, so that question came: How does he say: and then here he says that one of the characteristics of the seventy thousand who enter Paradise without reckoning is that they do not seek treatment?
The answer: There is no contradiction between the first hadith and the other hadith, and that is from several aspects:
The first aspect: That we review an usul fiqh principle, which says: If two texts contradict each other in one subject, like the subject of seeking treatment which we are discussing now, we must exclude the lesser meaning in one of the hadiths from the greater meaning in the other hadith. We find in the first hadith: This is a general text, meaning seek treatment for all diseases; because it says: ; so seek treatment for all diseases and with all medicines. Then the second hadith came and pointed to the dislike of seeking treatment with what? With cautery. So this is treatment of one type, and there is treatment with various types and medicines; so we exclude the lesser from the greater.
And we take from this reconciliation the following conclusion: Seek treatment with every cure except cautery. The problem is ended, and there is no longer any contradiction. The contradiction would be: seek treatment and do not seek treatment; that is the contradiction. There is no existence of such a contradiction between the two previous hadiths. The first hadith says: Seek treatment absolutely. The other hadith dislikes seeking treatment with cautery, and makes it one of the characteristics of those who enter Paradise without reckoning that they do not seek treatment with cautery.
So seeking treatment with cautery, we can say: It is prohibited, not from this hadith. This hadith benefits us with the non-recommendation of seeking treatment with cautery, and does not benefit us with the prohibition of cautery. And were it not that there is an explicit hadith in the prohibition of seeking treatment with cautery... it indicates the dislike of seeking treatment with cautery, not the prohibition. But the authentic hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in "Sahih al-Bukhari" says.
Yes?

Eid Abbasi : ... .

The Shaykh : ... ; Why? Because there is torment by fire, and it is not permissible to torment by fire except for the One who created the fire. So it became clear that there is no contradiction between the two hadiths, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.