When the Imam was ill — Hadith 1

87. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad Al-Jowhary, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, who has said: Abu Ibrahim (asws) having said to me: ‘I (asws) have had fever for seven months and my (asws) son has had fever for twelve months and it has been increasing for us. I (asws) feel that it does not affect the whole body. Sometimes it affects in the upper part of the body and does not affect in the lower of it, and sometimes it affects in the lower part of it and does not affect in all of the upper body’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you. If you (asws) allow me, I would narrate to you (asws) a Hadeeth from Abu Baseer from your (asws) grandfather (asws) when he (asws) had fever, he (asws) sought help by the cold water. So he (asws) would take two pieces of cloth, one immerse it in the cold water and one on the body and rotate between them. Then he (asws) would call out until his (asws) voice would be heard at the door of the house; ‘يَا فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ’ ‘O Fatima (sa) daughter (asws) of the Muhammad (saww)’. He (asws) said: ‘You have spoken the truth’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws). Have you (asws) not found a cure for the fever? ’ So he (asws) said: ‘We (asws) have not found a cure for it except for the supplication and the cold water. I (asws) complained of it, so Muhammad Bin Ibrahim sent a doctor to me for it. So he came to me (asws) with a medicine which made me (asws) vomit, so I refused to drink it, because if I vomit, all of my (asws) joints hurt’.