Discussion of the issue of the transmission of disease from a sick person to a healthy one, and the meaning of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): (There is no contagion and no bad omen).

The Shaykh : The matter did not stop at this command, but I know many doctors who do not shake hands with people for fear that there might be a contagious microbe in the hand of the one shaking hands; therefore, they do not shake hands with people. This is a whisper (waswasah), and we used to think that waswasah was limited to some of the worshippers, but now waswasah extends from these people to non-worshippers, such as quack doctors and the like. Therefore, this is a reminder, and a reminder benefits the believers. In general, the leftover drink of a person is pure, but it is not described as a cure for any type of illness, nor is it described as a disease, except in a specific case where it is established that this person is actually sick and afflicted with a contagious disease, and the cause of this contagious disease is the germ, and this germ may be transmitted not only through drinking, but also through touching what this person may touch. In this case, caution is permissible, but if we make this our habit in life, it means that this is a waswasah that destroys the human bond and the human relationships established between people. The original rule is that the leftover drink of every person and the dealings of every person are judged to be in a state of fitrah (innate natural disposition), health, and well-being.
If it is established that a person, for example, has tuberculosis, God forbid, and he drank from a cup, you may stay away from this, but you must know that this person is truly afflicted with tuberculosis. As for waswasah, thinking "perhaps, perhaps," this is not permissible; because first, it is a bad opinion of your Muslim brother, and second, it severs the brotherly ties between you and your Muslim brother.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : As for...
Keep your question.
As for when it is medically established that this person is afflicted, you may take precautions for yourself and stay away from drinking his leftover drink, and even from shaking hands with him. Drink with your right hand, my brother. This is not a matter of waswasah, nor is it a matter of not relying on Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as some people narrate—and this is also a warning about an incorrect hadith. Some of the hadith scholars, such as al-Tirmidhi in his Sunan, narrate that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sat to eat food with a man who had leprosy, afflicted with the disease of leprosy in his hand, and it seemed that the man was hesitant to share the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) food with his hand, so he said to him (peace be upon him): , and he (peace be upon him) ate with the leper. This hadith is not correct.

The questioner : Is it weak?

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : ... upon him.

The Shaykh : I said: al-Tirmidhi narrated it, yes.
, this hadith has a weak chain of narration, and what contradicts it has come in the Sahih, in Sahih Muslim; that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to shake hands with him, so he extended his hand and it had the disease of leprosy, so he said to him (peace be upon him): .

The questioner : Professor, what is the disease of leprosy?

The Shaykh : I do not think it is a malignant disease, I mean.

Another questioner : It eats the flesh.

The Shaykh : The flesh, yes, it cracks and tears, and so on.

The questioner : A common disease...

The Shaykh : Yes? Contagious, the important thing is that it is contagious.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : So if there is a man sick with a contagious disease, it is Islamically permissible to avoid his company and proximity, and this does not contradict reliance (tawakkul); because reliance itself does not contradict taking means. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: , as for the famous hadith: to the end of the hadith; this hadith is authentic and agreed upon by the two Shaykhs.

The questioner : This was my question!

The Shaykh : Yes, you do not believe that the Shaykh remains open (transparent)! [Everyone laughs!]

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : ... .

Another questioner The complete hadith?

The Shaykh: Yes.
His saying (peace be upon him): is an authentic hadith, but it does not mean negating the previous truth that the Messenger (peace be upon him) established by his saying to the leper: . This is the truth that medicine has also established, which is contagion. So the meaning of his saying (peace be upon him): is not the negation of this Shari'ah and medical truth at the same time, but rather the Messenger (peace be upon him) intended by this negation to negate another superstition that the people of the first age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) held. This superstition is held today by the people of the other age of ignorance in Europe and in the lands of disbelief entirely, except for those who are believers in Allah (Mighty and Majestic). That previous and subsequent superstition is the belief that contagion is a natural thing, like they say: nature, nature, that contagion is transmitted by its nature; meaning: that the holder of this belief does not keep in mind the will of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), and that He is the Decider, and that He is the Manager, and that He is the Disposer in the universe, and that He is the one who allows contagion to be transmitted from the afflicted to the healthy.
So doctors today do not think at all in this spiritual Islamic meaning. They tell you: contagion, contagion. Likewise, the people of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and disbelief in the age of ignorance believed in contagion. They do not say: that contagion transmits to whom Allah wills to transmit this disease to. They do not keep Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) in their minds. This is the meaning that the Messenger (peace be upon him) intended to negate by his saying: , meaning: there is no age of ignorance contagion. As for real, factual medical contagion, this is established by the evidence: .
Where did you come from, Professor, with this meaning ; meaning: there is no age of ignorance contagion, meaning: is there no contagion accompanied by an age of ignorance belief?!
We came, my brothers, with this meaning from the complete hadith; namely that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), after he completed this hadith, a Bedouin man, a man of camels and of experience, stood up and said to him: O Messenger of Allah, we see that healthy camels enter among them a leper camel and it transmits the disease to them, and you are saying: ? This Bedouin understood from his hadith (peace be upon him): that there is no contagion at all, just as many of the Shaykhs today understand that there is no contagion at all, and they shock the scientific experiments with this... His saying (peace be upon him): means there is no contagion, meaning the needle against cholera and the like that has become... transferring a contagious germ to what? A healthy one to protect it from contagion. This is one of the greatest experiments that there is contagion.
This truth was established by the Shari'ah and medicine at the same time, and it was denied by the people of ignorance of the Shari'ah, just as it was denied by that Bedouin. He said to him, objecting or inquiring: You are saying: O Messenger of Allah , we see contagion with our own eyes, we are seeing ten healthy camels, a hundred healthy camels, there is nothing like the gazelles, a leper camel enters among them and transmits the disease to them, how do you say: ? So we see that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not deny or correct this Bedouin, but rather he approved him on his observation which he related to his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but he (peace be upon him) drew his attention to the truth that he intended by that negation ; where he said to him (peace be upon him): . The first leper camel, who was the first one who transmitted the disease to it? It is Allah (Mighty and Majestic). So the Messenger (peace be upon him) intended by this hadith to draw attention to the fact that the primary cause, as the philosophers say, is Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), but this does not negate that the leper camel is a cause for transmitting its disease to the healthy camel, but this is by the will of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and His decree.
And what indicates this from the aspect of experience is that we see many healthy people mix with a considerable number of patients afflicted with contagious diseases, and no harm befalls them at all, while we see others who are afflicted by contagion, and perhaps it leads to their death and kills them.
So his saying (peace be upon him): did not intend to negate the contagion that is established by science and experience, but rather he intended to negate by it an age of ignorance superstition; which is their belief that contagion transmits by itself and its own nature, and this meaning is supported by the fact that in some narrations in Sahih Muslim, at the end of the hadith: .

The questioner : Is it authentic?

The Shaykh : It is authentic, yes.
; thus, this affirms contagion, while the beginning of the hadith denies it. The reconciliation between the denial and the affirmation is that the denied thing is one thing and the affirmed thing is another. The denied thing is the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) superstition that contagion spreads by itself, and the affirmed thing is contagion by the will of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He).

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes, I do not think it is authentic.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : You will hear it.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : The hadith of , and .

Another questioner: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Shaykh al-Tantawi al-Jawhari, in his tafsir called "al-Jawahir," which gathered everything except tafsir! He reported that when one of the German doctors heard his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): , he said: Our tradition, we who are the experimental scientists and the investigating researchers, is that the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), is an eloquent and articulate man who knows how to speak, so he places the word in its proper place for a profound wisdom. So why did he say in this hadith: and not say, for example, from demolition or drowning or something similar? Why did he specify the word "lion"? There must be a wisdom. So this interpretation and this discussion led him to take the hand of a person afflicted with leprosy, and he placed the microbe of this disease under a very powerful magnifying glass, and behold, he saw the leprosy germ in the shape of a lion. He said: This is the secret in the saying of the Prophet of Islam: . This is actually possible, but I have not seen this report in any of the other books I have read except in "Tafsir al-Tantawi al-Jawhari," and as I told you, he is the owner of oddities and wonders, containing everything except tafsir.
Fine.

The questioner : ؟

The Shaykh : In all its forms and types, from a human being, whether a believer or a disbeliever, pure or in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah) or menstruating, all of this is pure, and there is nothing wrong with using it.
You pray, Professor...