On the authority of Anas, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There is no ruqyah except for an evil eye, a sting, or blood that will not stop flowing." Al-‘Abbas did not mention the evil eye, and this is the wording of Sulayman ibn Dawud.

(1) Authentic except for his statement: "or blood that will not stop flowing." This is a chain in which Sharik—who is Ibn ‘Abdullah al-Nakha‘i, and he was weak in memory—erred, making it part of the musnad of Anas ibn Malik. There is also disagreement about him regarding whether it is connected or interrupted: Yazid ibn Harun connected it from him, as in this narration of the compiler, as did Muhammad ibn Sa‘id ibn al-Asbahani. But Sulayman ibn Dawud—who is al-‘Ataki al-Zahrani—in the compiler's narration here, as well as ‘Ali ibn al-Ja‘d and ‘Amr ibn ‘Awn, differed from them, narrating it from him, from al-‘Abbas, from al-Sha‘bi, as mursal. Abu Hatim said, as his son narrated from him in al-‘Ilal 2/248: There is no meaning to mentioning Anas in it, because the reliable narrators send it as mursal from the hadith of Sharik, unless this is from Sharik.

The hadith has already been mentioned (3884) without his statement: "or blood that will not stop flowing," via the route of Husayn ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, from al-Sha‘bi, from ‘Imran ibn Husayn. Al-Mizzi said in Tuhfat al-Ashraf 2/77: And it is the preserved version.

Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Kabir (733), and al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak 4/413, via the route of Muhammad ibn Sa‘id ibn al-Asbahani, from Sharik al-Nakha‘i, with this chain. The name of Sharik was omitted from the printed edition of al-Tabarani.

Abu Hatim narrated it, as his son reported from him in al-‘Ilal 2/248, via the route of ‘Amr ibn ‘Awn, and Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi in al-Ja‘diyyat (2488) from ‘Ali ibn al-Ja‘d—both of them from Sharik al-Nakha‘i, from al-‘Abbas ibn Dhurayh, from al-Sha‘bi, as mursal.

Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr narrated it in al-Tamhid 23/158 via the route of Mujalid ibn Sa‘id, from al-Sha‘bi, from Jabir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "There is no ruqyah except for an evil eye, a sting, or blood that will not stop flowing." And Mujalid ibn Sa‘id is weak in hadith, and he also erred in this hadith, making it part of the musnad of Jabir. Mujalid narrated it another time from al-Sha‘bi, from some of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, without his statement: "or blood that will not stop flowing"—narrated by Ibn Abi Shaybah 8/35.

Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated it 8/36–37 via the route of Zakariyya ibn Abi Za'idah, from ‘Amir al-Sha‘bi, from Ibn Mas‘ud, as his own statement, mawquf, without his statement: "or blood that will not stop flowing."