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Visiting the sick, either at hospital or their home, is a recommended philanthropic deed in different cultures and religions, including Christianity, [1] Judaism [2] and Islam [3] and is considered an aspect of benevolence and a work of mercy.
However, in the Islamic world, the accuracy of the hadith book is discussed regardless of sect. There are approximately 1,000,000 hadiths with different narrations. from kureşy (old city in arabiya), there are people who follow the hadiths as prophet Muhammeds advise. [20] Peoples practices also vary greatly geographically and from time to time.
The first professional nurse in the history of Islam is a woman named Rufaidah bint Sa’ad, also known as Rufaida Al-Aslamia or Rufayda al-Aslamiyyah, who was born in 620 (est.) and lived at the time of Muhammed. [2] She hailed from the Bani Aslam tribe in Medina and was among the first people in Medina to accept Islam. [3]
The two-coloured arcade opens out on a gallery full of the sick. To the right, under two arcades, under a broken arch, is Napoleon, accompanied by his officers, touching the armpit bubo presented to him by one of the sick. In front of him, an Arab doctor is caring for another sick man, and a blind man struggles to approach the general.
The Prophet not only instructed sick people to take medicine, but he himself invited expert physicians for this purpose. — As-Suyuti’s Medicine of the Prophet p. 125 Muhammad 's opinions on health issues and habits in regard to the leading of a healthy life were collected early on and edited as a separate corpus of writings under the title ...
Similarly, duties to parents, neighbors, relatives, sick people, the old, and the minority group have been defined in Islam. In a long hadith recorded in Hadith Qudsi (sacred hadith), it is said that God, on the Day of Judgment, will be displeased with those who do not care for the sick people, and who do not give food to those who ask. God ...
Each year they swear allegiance to the current Mouride leader, known as the caliph or grand marabout, by donating money, cattle and crops to the brotherhood to show their loyalty.
Even though western medicine has become a factor in Nigeria, the Islamic influence of the Hausa people still persists. British residents of Nigeria, for example, segregated lepers from society; however, Hausa leaders pressed to take in and look after the sick in accordance with Islamic traditions. [6]