In the name of Allah most
gracious most merciful
Assalaamualaikum wa
rahmatuallahi wa barakatahu
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
8.797 Narrated byAnas bin Malik
A group of people from 'Ukl
(or 'Uraina) tribe--but I think he said that they were from 'Ukl--came to
Medina and (they became ill, so) the Prophet
ordered them to go to the herd
of (Milch) she-camels and told them to go out and drink the camels' urine and
milk (as a medicine). So they went and drank
it, and when they became
healthy, they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. This news reached
the Prophet early in the morning, so he sent
(some) men in their pursuit
and they were captured and brought to the Prophet before midday. He ordered to
cut off their hands and legs and their
eyes to be branded with heated
iron pieces and they were thrown at Al-Harra, and when they asked for water to
drink, they were not given water. (Abu
Qilaba said, "Those were
the people who committed theft and murder and reverted to disbelief after being
believers (Muslims), and fought against
Allah and His Apostle").
they got punishment because
they murdered and commited mischief on earth.
5:33 The punishment of those
who wage war against Allah and His Apostle and strive with might and main for
mischief through the land is: execution or
crucifixion of the cutting off
of hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from the land: that is their
disgrace in this world and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.
THE FOLLOWING HADITH NUMBERS
CARRY THE SIMILAR OR SAME SUBJECT AS THE ABOVE HADITH.
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
1.234 Narrated byAbu Qilaba
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
5.505 Narrated byAnas
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
7.623 Narrated byAnas bin Malik
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
8.794 Narrated byAnas
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
8.796 Narrated byAnas
Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith
9.37 Narrated byAbu Qilaba
Excerpts taken from
The medicinal properties of
the Arabian camel were known to Arab physicians. In his magisterial Canon -
"a medical bible for a longer time than any other
work"[4], Ibn Sînâ
(Avicenna) mentions that chronic imbalance of the liver produces jaundice,
dropsy (istisqâ'), and swelling of the belly and that the
health of the liver can be
restored through a temporary diet of camel milk and male Arabian Najîb camel
urine, "the most beneficient type of urine,
then human urine."[5]
Avicennan textbooks by Ibn al-Azraq (d. 890) and al-Suwaydî (600-690) state,
"The cure [for dropsy] is to drink the milk of
the she-camel - together with
its urine - fresh out of the udder[6], and to use that every day and leave
everything else, for it is extremely efficient
and of proven
results."[7]
Ibn Sayyid al-Nâs specifies,
"notably desert camels feeding on wormwood and southernwood."[8]
Wormwood is among the herbs that are extremely useful in
correcting digestive disorders
in general and for helping detoxify the liver in particular, and is used in the
treatment of hepatitis.[9]
Thus, Arabian camel urine was
a standard prescription in Arabic medicine and remains a staple of Bedouin
natural remedies to this day both as diuretic,
snuff and delousing hair
wash.[10]
One of the great Arab
physicians was the Antiochene Dâwûd ibn `Umar al-Antâkî (d. 1008) who knew
Greek as well as Arabic, worked in Cairo and
Damascus, and died in Makka.
He produced a number of Arabic treatises, the
most famous being his two-volume Tadhkirat Ulîl-Albâb wal-Jâmi`
lil-`Ajab
al-`Ujâb or "Memorandum
Book for Those Endowed with Hearts and the Encyclopedia of Wonders" -
still available in print - in which he says:
Urine differs according to its
animal origin but it all tends to heat and dryness provided it does not come
from an animal devoid of bile such as the
camel. In the latter case, its
dryness is minimal because it is devoid of salinity since nothing breaks down
salinity, with water, other than the
bile. All urine types dispel
the effects of disease, cure the eye and the ear, chronic cough, difficulty in
respiration, the spleen, and uterine
pains, especially aged and/or
congealed. The most effective types are human urine then the camel's.[11]
A camel needs eight times more
salt than ovines and bovines - 1kg weekly - and the low salinity of its urine
is due to the fact that it produces ADH
(anti-diuretic hormone) and
aldosterone, a hormone that facilitates reabsorption of urine water from the
urinary tracts into blood, reducing the
quantity of urine. The liver
has few excess amino-acids to degrade into urea and uric acid - highly toxic
substances - because of the camel's vegetarian
regimen. At the same time,
aldosterone helps retain sodium at the level of the kidneys, which keeps water
in the body. All this produces such a
concentrated urine that the
volume excreted can be reduced from 20 to 5 liters.[12]
Use of animal urine is
endorsed in mainstream modern medicine. Pregnant mare urine is the source of
conjugated equine estrogens and has been marketed for
over fifty years as the
pharmaceutical brand Premarin, "an estrogen treatment for menopausal and
premenopausal women" especially postpartum -
one of the most prescribed
drugs in the United States.[13] It was very recently discovered that adding
distilled cow urine to medicaments increases
their effectiveness while
decreasing their side-effects, making anti-cancer and anti-tubercular drugs
twenty times more effective and anti-bacterial
drugs eighty times more
effective.[14] Human "urine therapy" is a staple of ayurveda but
remains an underground semi-science in the West.
Malaria, Typhus, Dropsy, or
Hepatitis?
Dr. Mahmûd Nâzim al-Nusaymî saw
the diseases caused by the fever of Madîna as one of two types: either fever
caused by gastrointestinal infections such
as typhoid and other types of
salmonella; or malaria-type marsh fever and chills (hummâ al-barda'). The
former causes a swelling of the stomach and
intestines while the latter
causes a swelling in the pancreas and liver. These diseases are carried by
insects such as mosquitoes, which fester in
stagnant-water and
vegetation-rich environments.[20]
Two Syrian contemporaries, the
savant Shams al-Dîn Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751) in al-Tibb al-Nabawî ("Medicine
of the Prophet") and the eye specialist and
antimonist of Safad al-Kahhâl
`Alî ibn `Abd al-Karîm ibn Tarkhân (d. 759) in al-Ahkâm al-Nabawiyya
fîl-Sinâ`at al-Tibbiyya ("The Prophetic Prescriptions
in Medical Science") both
believed that the disease diagnosed in the hadîth of the `Uraniyyîn was a form
of dropsy.[21] Ascites dropsy is caused mostly
by liver imbalance and can
lead to cirrhosis.[22] We mentioned the standard Avicennan prescription in such
cases. This was tested recently. A researcher
from a teaching hospital in
the Sudan presented a study of 30 patients with ascites dropsy, an accumulation
of fluid in the peritoneal cavity of the
abdomen that causes distended
stomachs.[23] The study found that patients responded slightly better to 150ml
of camel urine a day than to the standard
chemical-based medicine, the
strong diuretic furosemide.[24] However, ascites is not acquired in a short
time and is a lifelong ailment. Nor is it
infectious, so it is unlikely
that eight people would contract it in a brief time and all at once.
According to our teacher Dr. Sâmir al-Nass, the likeliest diagnosis of the symptoms and background described in the hadîth of the `Uraniyyîn is that
the patients suffered from
viral hepatitis (= literally "swelling"), a highly infectious
inflammation of the liver that causes jaundice, bloating
of the abdomen due to
accumulation of fluid, and fever. Among its treatments are diuretics and
low-fat diets.
Scientists from the United Arab
Emirates have proposed using one of the world's hardiest mammals - the camel -
in the campaign to fight and eradicate human diseases. A team led by Dr Sabah
Jassim, from the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine,
says camels are highly resistant to many deadly viral diseases and believes
their antibodies could be used for new drugs.
Camels have a unique physiology that
allows them to thrive in some of the world's harshest environments.
They can survive the perils of desert
dehydration by storing water in their bloodstream; they can survive lack of
food by holding extra fatty tissue in their humps; their milk stays fresh much
longer than that of a cow.
Natural immunity
But as well as these advantages, they
have immune systems that are so robust. They remain free from many of the viral
diseases that affect other mammals, such as foot-and-mouth and rinderpest.
The antibodies that camels carry
inside them are structurally much simpler than those of humans, and Dr Sabah
Jassim suggests they could be much simpler to replicate artificially than human
antibodies.
Writing in the British Institute of
Biology's magazine, The Biologist, Dr Jassim says the small size of camel
antibodies would also allow them to penetrate deep into human tissue and cells
that would not be otherwise accessible.
He said the camel antibodies, by being
transported from the desert sands into the laboratory test tube, had the
potential to be a vital weapon against human diseases.
[4] William Osler as cited by
Monzur Ahmed in his article "Ibn Sînâ, Doctor of Doctors", Muslim
Technologist, November 1990.
[5] In Mahmûd al-Nusaymî,
al-Tibb al-Nabawî wal-`Ilm al-Hadîth (3:242) and
Muhammad Nizâr al-Daqr,
Rawâ'i` al-Tibb al-Islâmî: al-Qism al-`Ilâjî
(1:257).
[6] Jawâd `Alî in al-Mufassal
fî Târîkh al-`Arab Qabl al-Islâm asserts they
used to boil the urine first
cf. al-Nusaymî, al-Tibb al-Nabawî wal-`Ilm
al-Hadîth (3:237).
[7] Ibn al-Azraq, Tas-hîl
al-Manâfi` fil-Tibbi wal-Hikma ["The Facilitation
of Benefits in Medicine and
Wisdom"] (1206 Khayriyya Cairo ed. p. 60 =1315
Hamîdiyya Cairo ed. p.
51=another old Cairo edition p. 66) cf. al-Sha`rânî's
epitome of al-Suwaydî titled
Mukhtasar al-Suwaydî fil-Tibb (1302 Halabî
Cairo ed. p. 51).
[8] Cited by al-Suyûtî in his
Sharh on al-Nasâ'î's Sunan (1:161).
[9] Andrew Pengelly, Herbal
Treatments for Hepatitis [Online Document]
[10] Cf. Gibrîl Jabbûr, The
Bedouins and the Desert, transl. Lawrence I.
Conrad (State University of
New York Press, 1995) and Hilda & Dagg
Gauthier-Pilters, The Camel,
Chicago and London, 1981. City Arabs apparently
know it only as a hair tonic.
[11] Al-Antâkî, Tadhkira
(Cairo: Maymûniyya 1308/1891 ed. 1:77).
[12] Le chameau roule sa bosse
au soleil,
http://www.genista.net/gi/nm/drom-281.htm,
and Chameaux, lamas et alpagas
(all in French)
[13] PREMARIN Family of Products;
The Truth about Premarin; and Premarin
(Premarine) ERT/HRT & PMU
Farms Controversy [Online Documents]
[14]
http://www.rfi.fr/fichiers/MFI/Sante/641.asp (in French), quoting the
British magazine Chemistry and
Industry. [Online Document]
[20] Al-Nusaymî, al-Tibb
al-Nabawî wal-`Ilm al-Hadîth (3:218, 241); al-Daqr,
Rawâ'i` al-Tibb al-Islâmî
(1:257).
[21] In al-Nusaymî, al-Tibb
al-Nabawî wal-`Ilm al-Hadîth (3:241).
[22] Search
"ascites" at Surgical Tutor [Online Document]
[23]
http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/radiology/icmrad/abdominal/parts/Ascites.html
and
http://health.discovery.com/diseasesandcond/encyclopedia/185.html
[24]
http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/06/07/urine/index1.html with
the misspelling frusimide.
Allah knows best.