16 - Chapter: The Sick Person Having His Nails and Pubic Hair Trimmed

3112 - Musa ibn Isma'il narrated to us, Ibrahim ibn Sa'd narrated to us, Ibn Shihab informed us, 'Amr ibn Jariyah al-Thaqafi, the ally of the Banu Zuhrah — and he was among the companions of Abu Hurayrah — informed me.

----------------------------------------------

= And in the chapter on his saying: "The one with pleurisy is a martyr," from 'Uqbah ibn 'Amir in Ahmad (17434). Its chain is sound in corroboration.

And in the chapter on his saying: "And the woman who dies with a child in her womb is a martyr," from 'Ubadah ibn al-Samit in al-Tayalisi (582), Ahmad (22684), al-Darimi (2414), and al-Shashi in his Musnad (1302–1305), and its chain is authentic. His wording in Ahmad: "The killing of a Muslim is martyrdom, and the plague is martyrdom, and the stomach [disease], and drowning, and the woman whom her child kills while she is pregnant."

And from Abu Hurayrah in Ahmad (8092), and its chain is authentic.

Al-Khattabi said: The origin of wujub in language is falling. Allah the Exalted said: {And when their flanks fall [wajabat], eat of them} [al-Hajj: 36] — meaning when they lean and fall, and that only occurs when its soul has departed. And it is said of the sun when it sets: "The sun has set [wajabat]." And his saying: "And the woman who dies with a child in her womb [bi-jum']" — it is that she dies while there is a child in her belly.

We say: The one stricken with plague [al-mat'un] is the one afflicted by the plague.

And al-mabtun: Ibn al-Athir said: it is the one who dies from a disease of his belly, such as dropsy and the like.

We say: And it is not far-fetched that his saying "the one stricken with plague and the one with abdominal disease" includes everyone who dies from an intractable disease among those illnesses whose cure is despaired of.

And his saying: "the one with pleurisy [dhat al-janb]" — it is, as some Arab physicians see, an ulcer that afflicts a person inside his side, and in modern medicine: inflammation of the membrane surrounding the lung. See "Qamus al-Atibba'" by Madyan ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Misri 1/23, and "al-Mu'jam al-Wasit" 1/138.

And his saying: "We have been overcome concerning you, O Abu al-Rabi'." Al-'Azim Abadi said: meaning, we desire your life, but the decree of Allah the Exalted is prevailing.

And her saying: jahazak — meaning the means of jihad.