VISITING THE SICK : A Meaningful Act of Compassion

 

Bringing Comfort: The Virtues and Etiquette of Visiting the Sick

Say: Laa Ba’sa Ṭahoorun insha Allah

لَا بَأْسَ، طَهُورٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ

Don't worry, if Allah wills, it will be expiation (for your sins).

Narrated Ibn `Abbas:

عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم دَخَلَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ يَعُودُهُ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ لاَ بَأْسَ طَهُورٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ ‏"‏‏.‏ فَقَالَ كَلاَّ بَلْ حُمَّى تَفُورُ عَلَى شَيْخٍ كَبِيرٍ كَيْمَا تُزِيرَهُ الْقُبُورَ‏.‏ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏"‏ فَنَعَمْ إِذًا ‏"‏‏.‏

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) entered upon sick man to pay him a visit, and said to him, Laa Ba’sa Tahoorun inshaAllah “(Don't worry, Allah willing, (your sickness will be) an expiation for your sins)."

Sahih al-Bukhari 5662

2) Dua For the Sick Person

As’alullaah Al ‛Azeema Rabbal Arshil ‛Azeemi An Yashfeek (recite 7 times)

I ask Allah the Supreme, Lord of the Magnificent Throne to cure you.

عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ عَادَ مَرِيضًا لَمْ يَحْضُرْ أَجَلُهُ، فَقَالَ عِنْدَهُ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ: أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ، إِلَّا عَافَاهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْمَرَضِ

رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُدَ (3106)، وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ (2083)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone visits a sick whose time (of death) has not come, and says with him seven times: As’alullaah-Al-‛Azeema Rabbal-‛Arshil-‛Azeemi An Yashfeek (I ask Allah, the Mighty, the Lord of the mighty Throne, to cure you, Allah will cure him from that disease). 

(Sunan Abi Dawud 3106)

3) Reward of Visiting the Sick

عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ مَوْلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

«مَنْ عَادَ مَرِيضًا لَمْ يَزَلْ فِي خُرْفَةِ الْجَنَّةِ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ»

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ (2568)

Thauban, the freed slave of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:

He who visits the sick continues to remain in the fruit garden of Paradise until he returns.

Khurfat al-Jannah (خُرْفَةِ الْجَنَّةِ) refers to a fruit garden of Paradise. Another narration explains that it means its fruits.

(Sahih Muslim 2568a)

عَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ

مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَعُودُ مُسْلِمًا غُدْوَةً، إِلَّا صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ حَتَّى يُمْسِيَ، وَإِنْ عَادَهُ عَشِيَّةً، إِلَّا صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ، وَكَانَ لَهُ خَرِيفٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ

رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ (969)، وَقَالَ: حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ

Narrator: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib رضي الله reported:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying, 

"When a Muslim visits a sick Muslim at dawn, seventy thousand angels keep on praying for him till dusk. If he visits him in the evening, seventy thousand angels keep on praying for him till the morning; and he will have (his share of) reaped fruits in Jannah." 

(At- Tirmidhi 969)