المَرَضُ

SICKNESS

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Sickness is one of the two confinements.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1636]

3– Imam al-Baqir or Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Staying awake from sickness or pain for one night carries a greater reward than the worship of one year.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 114, no. 6]

4– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘When a believer becomes sick, Allah reveals unto the angel on his left
[shoulder], ‘Do not write a sin for my servant as long as he is in My confinement and My grasp, and He reveals unto the angel on his right
[shoulder], 'Write for My servant what you were writing for him in merits when he was healthy.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 114, no. 7]

5– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘From among the treasures of righteousness are: concealing one’s tragedies, sicknesses and charity.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 2, p. 68, no. 1435]

6– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah Almighty has said, ‘Whoever becomes sick three times and does not complain to any of his visitors, I change his flesh to flesh better than what he has and blood better than his blood. If I cure him, then I will cure him and he will have no sin, and if I take him
[in death], I will take him to My Mercy.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 115, no. 1]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Whoever suppresses pain that he has been inflicted with for three days from people and complains to Allah instead, Allah will rightfully cure him from it.’
[al-Khisal, p. 630, no. 10]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Whoever conceals his sickness from physicians has betrayed his body.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8545]

9– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Whoever conceals the secret of his sickness, his physician will not be able to cure it.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8612]

10– Prophet David (AS), would say, ‘O Allah,
[do not give me] sickness that weakens me nor health that makes me forget
[You], rather a state in between them both.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, p. 134, no. 334]

11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Health suffices as an ailment.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 7]

12– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Indeed Allah hates hard calamities and tragedies that do not obtain anything from a man’s body or his wealth.’
[al-Da`aawat, p. 172, no. 482]

13– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘If a body does not become sick it continues to make merry, and there is no good in a body that
[only] makes merry.’
[Mishkat al-Anwar, p. 280]

14– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The one who visits the sick dives into
[divine] mercy.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 25141]

15– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah Almighty will say on the Day of Resurrection , ‘O son of Adam, I became sick and you did not visit Me!’ and he will ask, ‘O Lord, how can I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds?’ He Almighty will say, ‘Did you not know that My servant so and so became sick and you did not visit him?! Did you not know that if you had visited him you would have found Me there with him?!’
[al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 4, p. 317, no. 3]

16– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Whoever visits a sick person, seventy thousand angels will escort him repenting for him until he returns to his house.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 120, no. 2]

17– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The best kind of visit
[of the sick] is the briefest one.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 25139]

18– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Visit the sick and follow funeral processions, they will remind you of the Hereafter.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 25143]

19– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The visitor with the greatest reward with Allah is he who when he visits he sits briefly, unless the sick person likes the company and wants and asks for
[him to sit longer].’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 118, no. 6]

20– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Visiting should be the length of time it takes to milk a camel.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 118, no. 2]

21– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The complete visit of the sick should be just long enough for you to put your hand on his arm, and hasten to leave from him, for the visit of the foolish is harder for the sick person to bear than his pain.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 118, no. 4]

22– A protégé of Imam al-Sadiq (AS) narrated, ‘One of his protégés became sick so we went to visit him as a group of the protégés of Ja`afar. We met Ja`afar (AS) on the way, and he asked, ‘Where are you going?’ We replied, ‘We are going to so and so to visit him.’ He said, 'Stop', so we stopped, and he asked, ‘Does any of you have an apple or a quince, or a citron, or some perfume or a piece of sandalwood?!’ We said, ‘No, we do no have any of these?’ He said, ‘Do you not know that the sick man is comforted by anything that is brought for him.’
[al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 118, no. 3]