Re: Hijama according to the real SUNNAH

[Hasan Bin Abul Mubashir]

Brother Hejazi,

 

Thanks for the points you have discussed, YES, a perfect knowledge & experience of Hijamah is necessary for a Hajjaam.

But to be an authorized medical doctor is not compulsory, Hijamah of Prophet Muhammad Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam (as indicated by Hadith) was performed by the slaves of Sahabah, & do you feel that a slave can be a medical doctor, in the times of our Prophet, a famous person named Haris Bin Kaldah was a medical doctor by profession, & as we can understand, his earnings never allowed someone to purchase him as a slave.

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وفى ‏(‏جامع الترمذىّ‏)‏ عن عبَّاد بن منصور، قال‏:‏ سمِعتُ عِكْرمَةَ يقولُ‏:‏ ‏(‏كانَ لابن عباسٍ غِلمةٌ ثلاثةٌ حَجَّامُون، فكانَ اثنَانِ يُغلانِ عليه، وَعَلَى اهلِهِ، وواحدٌ لحجمِهِ، وحجمِ اهلِهِ‏.‏ قال‏:‏ وقال ابنُ عباسٍ‏:‏ قال نبىُّ الله صلى الله عليه وسلم‏:‏ ‏‏نِعْمَ العبدُ الحَجَّامُ يَذْهَبُ بالدَّمِ، وَيُخِفُّ الصُّلْبَ، ويَجْلُو البَصَرَ‏.

 

In Tirmizi, it is narrated by Abbaad Bin Mansoor that he said: I heard Ikramah saying that Abdullah Ibn Abbas Radi Allaho Anh had three slaves who were Hajjaam (a person who performs cupping), two of them used to work for him & his family (probably at his garden & to carry the grains & load to his house) & one of those slaves performed cupping. Abdullah Ibn Abbas Radi Allaho Anh reported that Prophet Muhammad Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam said : "The best of your slaves is the one who performs cupping, Hijamah takes out the blood, & removes the pain from the back & enhances the vision".

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وفى طريق أُخرى‏:‏ ‏(‏واحتَجَمَ رسولُ الله صلى الله عليه وسلم على كاهِلِه مِنْ أجْل الذي أكَلَ من الشَّاة، حَجَمَه أبو هِندٍ بالقَرْنِ والشَّفْرة، وهو مولىً لبنى بَيَاضَةَ من الأنصار، وبقى بعد ذلك ثلاثَ سنين حتى كان وجعُه الذي تُوفى فيه، فقال‏:‏ ‏(‏ما زِلْتُ أجِدُ من الأُكْلَةِ التي أكَلْتُ مِن الشَّاةِ يومَ خَيْبَرَ حتى كان هذا أوانَ انْقِطَاعِ الأَبْهَرِ مِنِّى‏)‏، فتُوفى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم شهيداً، قاله موسى بن عُقبةَ‏.‏

 

In another narration narrated by Musa bin Uqbah, “The Messenger of Allah used cupping on his back because of what he ate of the poisoned sheep. Abu Hind, a slave for Bani Bayadhah, used a knife to cup him. Three years later, when the Prophet was suffering from the illness that he died from, he said: "I still feel the effects of the poisoned sheep I ate from during the Day of Khyber until now, when it is the time the aorta is cut off (meaning when death is near)’. Therefore the Messenger of Allah died as a martyr.

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Apart from KAHIL (points 1 & 55), Prophet Muhammad Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam had Hijamah on his foot when he felt pain, it explains that Hijamah can be done at the areas where a patient feels pain & problem.

 

I have also heard about some people who were cupped at 20-22 points all together in a single session, it is totally regrettable.

You have probably seen videos of Usman Baloch on his website, we ask him to answer you directly.

 

Why you have not raised the issue of some Hijamah therapists, who touch women & perform their cupping without hesitation ?

My request to all medical doctors, whom you know that they are Hijamah therapists as well, why they do not compile some research papers on Hijamah's healing, they are in touch with labs & clinical investigations as an evidence is a piece of cake for them, why the efforts have not been made in this regard?

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----- Original Message -----

From: Mahmoud Hegazi

To: sh...@mize.com.sa

Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 4:11 PM

Subject: Hijama according to the real SUNNAH

As-salamu Alaykom

Jazak ALLAH Khairan for your blog post on A Health. Kindly please note that in spite of the fact that bekam is a widely known form of alternative medicine in your part of the world and is practiced by many non-doctors, however Hijama as we know it is an Authentic Sunnah of our beloved Prophet Muhammad ( PBUH ), and he had given us enough information and details on how to do it, when to do it, and many Muslims who came after the beloved Prophet did extensive research on Hijama and discovered more of its miracles, having said that, Hijama is not at all done as our beloved Pakistani brothers do it ( with all due respect to them ), and i have seen the results both on people who had it done by some Pakistani Brothers and people who had it done by well versed and learned Muslim Doctors, and you will be amazed by the results, i can just give you one example, a Muslim Doctor who performed thousands of Hijama sessions, has been able by the blessing of ALLAH to cure a person from Leukemia, and hepatitis virus C, and a man with almost total paralysis... yet when it is done by the Pakistani brothers ( and believe me, i have seen many many video clips for them doing hijama on line ), and it makes me sad, so sad as to how they torture the Muslim patients by placing approx 15-20 cups on their bodies at any one time, and they leave the cup for more than 30 minutes on the body, that is practically insane and contrary to what our beloved Prophet used to do , he used to have only 2 cups on his upper back ( position 1 and 55 ), and maybe one or two cups at a certain weak or sick organ, that is all, so i can never understand where these brothers came with these practices from? and why they insist on calling it Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH, because it is simply not the Sunnah.

and they also tell their patients in one famous Hijama site set up by a Pakistani brother, that once a patient does Hijama, he can never lay down in bed or sleep , not until at least few hours have passed, as he could faint or pass out if he sleeps, and that is also un heard of, i have had Hijama done more than a dozen times, and i have slept right after it any times, with no problem at all, in fact i tell people in all my lectures of Prophet Medicine, especially when i talk about Hijama, that you must rest immediately thereafter, to give your immune system a chance to start its recovery, and this medically very true.

There are many other wrong practices of Hijama online, which is the exact reason why many people are afraid to do it these days, while they need it the most, given that traditional medicine has no answer for many modern day illnesses.

Thank you for your time, and please tell Brother Feisel Khan what i said here, and ALLAH swt is your witness.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters
To all the Brothers and Sisters who are NOT Medical Doctors, yet they feel free to practice Hijama. There has been many incidents in several countries, where people just based on a simple course for Hijama Techniques started to practice Hijama on other Muslim Brothers and Sisters, and in certain cases, many people fainted, collapsed, got badly infected, bled almost to death, and that is all due to the fact that Hijama is a medical procedure, and hence has to be performed ONLY by a Medical Doctor and no one else, and by the grace and blessings of ALLAH ( swt ), nowadays there are many Muslim and non-Muslim Doctors around the world who perform Hijama. There is an Authentic  Hadith that our beloved Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh ), had said that anyone who undertakes a job or a certain work while he lacks the skill thereof, then he is responsible and accountable before ALLAH ( swt ) for the consequences.More than one Prominent Muslim Scholar have explained this Hadith by clearly saying that only a Medical Doctor is authorized to do Hijama and any one who is not a Dcotor who undertakes that role, will be accountable before ALLAH swt and will have to answer for that at the day of Judgement.
In my country i have many cases where Hijama did not nearly achieve the results it should, simply because it was not performed by a doctor, in my case, and because i was determined to find a doctor, then when i had it done for my chronic sinusitis by a medical doctor, my sinus infection totally disappeared by the grace of ALLAH ( swt ).
Thank you

Dear Brother
If you really care about the SUNNAH of the beloved Prophet Muhammad PBUH and you want to follow it , not go against it, then you will have to re-consider doing Hijama by yourself to others, or your wife doing it to other Muslim Women, otherwise you will be accountable before ALLAH swt at the day of Judgement, when and where nothing will help any of us, except who came to ALLAH with a sound Heart.

Jazak ALLAH Khairan for reading this, and ALLAH swt is my witness that i meant no harm or disrespect, all i meant is to defend the SUNNAH of the beloved Prophet Muhammad PBUH.


Eng/Mahmoud Hegazi
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