Hadith 1

ion, and the fibres intermingle with it to aid in constipation, because it is a machine of pressing and pushing only. And it comes to it from the nerve of the brain, a branch that benefits it from the senses, and this is what gives rise to unpleasant odours, and the partnership between the stomach and the brain with this nerve, and through it the person feels the coldness of the drinking water, and through it he becomes aware of desire and feels the need for food if the stomach and the body are empty, so he moves to seek it. And rather, not all parts of the body feel it like the mouth of the stomach feels, because if it felt all of it, the animal would not suffer hunger at all, and it would have bitten all the parts. A large vein is connected to the front of the stomach, which goes its length and sends to it many branches and is accompanied by an artery that diverges like that. And all of those branches depend on the folding of the peritoneum, and the omentum is woven throughout, and a sticky, greasy moisture is always filtered into it, which is the fat with which the omentum is completed. And its benefit is that by its heat it defines the stomach in digestion from the front, as it helps in that of the liver from its right from above, and the spleen from its left from below, and the flesh of the solid from behind, and above the omentum, the peritoneal membrane, and above it the hypochondrium, and above it the abdominal muscles, digestive with the instinctive heat in its flesh, because it is a servant to the whole body in seeking and digesting food, so it must be empowered by the fullness of its action. The peritoneal membrane is the membrane that contains all the viscera, and its two ends meet at the backbone on one side, and connects to the diaphragm above it, and connects to the bottom of the bladder and the flanks from below, and there are two holes in it at the groin. It is called a hernia, and the benefit of this membrane is that it is a protection for the viscera and keeps them in their positions so that their movements and actions are not disturbed and connects them to each other and to the backbone so that they meet tightly and to be a barrier between the intestines and the muscle of the hypochondrium, among other benefits. And as for the intestines, they are all two layers, and on the inside are pairs who have dressed them in the position of a compaction, and all of them are tied to steel with ties that tighten them and keep them in their positions, except for one, which is called ‘Al-Awr’. It is empty and unattached, and six tribes have created three thickets, which are higher, and three thickets, which are lower. The first ileum is the intestine connected to the bottom of the stomach, and it is called the duodenum because the length in each human being is twelve folded fingers. Its orifice connected to the bottom of the stomach is called the pyloric because it joins when the stomach is full and closes so that neither food nor water comes out of it until digestion is complete or spoils, and then it opens until what is in the stomach becomes into the intestines. And just as the oesophagus is drawn to the stomach from above, so this intestine pushes it from below, and it is narrower than the oesophagus and less hot, because the oesophagus is the outlet for the chewed thing, and this is the outlet for the digested thing mixed with the drinking water. It agrees with some people, so it is easy to rush, so eyes are narrowed to be able to join and hold until maturity and digestion is complete, and it extends from the stomach to the bottom in a straight line, and there is nothing in other convolutions in it so that the rush of what is rushing to it is easy so that it is empty with speed and does not crowd what is adjacent to it from the right and left. It is followed by an intestine called the fasting person because it is mostly empty, and that is because