If the disease is contagious, are the patients to be placed alone?
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The questioner : We say that it is permissible to mix with the patients... We say that if this disease is contagious, meaning if the patient, for example...?
The Shaykh : The scholars say that if the disease is contagious, the patients are to be placed alone, and it is not permissible for the healthy to mix with them.
The questioner : The hadith is specific.
The Shaykh : The original hadith contains nothing; there is no mention of disease whatsoever, nor any mention of patients at all. But it seems al-Bukhari derived from its generality that this large gathering must include patients, including a lame person among them, yes.
The Shaykh : The scholars say that if the disease is contagious, the patients are to be placed alone, and it is not permissible for the healthy to mix with them.
The questioner : The hadith is specific.
The Shaykh : The original hadith contains nothing; there is no mention of disease whatsoever, nor any mention of patients at all. But it seems al-Bukhari derived from its generality that this large gathering must include patients, including a lame person among them, yes.