What is the ruling on Prophetic medicine if a person practices it? Does it become an act of worship?

The questioner : The matters of medicine are among the evidences mentioned by the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in many hadiths. Are they considered part of his Sunnah such that if we practice them, we are rewarded according to the Sunnah?

The Shaykh : What is of Prophetic medicine that is accompanied by his statement (peace be upon him), there is no doubt that it is from revelation, and a Muslim has no choice in it. For example, his statement (peace be upon him): This speaks of unseen matters, which the Messenger (peace be upon him) could not speak of except by revelation from the sky. Therefore, we have no choice but to reject such a hadith, as some doctors do today. Among the most difficult errors in which some Muslim doctors have fallen is their rejection of the hadith of the fly . In some narrations, it is stated that when it falls, it falls on the wing that contains the disease, and they say that these are matters the Messenger received from the Arabs. This is an error, because the hadith speaks of very precise matters, and it is not possible for a sane Muslim to dare to speak of them by guessing. How can it be imagined that the Messenger would speak of such details regarding this... imitating the pre-Islamic age of ignorance? May Allah be far from that. Rather, this is from the revelation of the sky.

The questioner : The hadith of pollinating the date palms. Well, Shaykh, they use this hadith as evidence...?

The Shaykh : The hadith is specific to pollination, and they generalize, and from here the error comes. He said to them: .