Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: I heard the Prophet saying, "If there is any healing in your medicines, then it is in cupping, a gulp of honey or branding with fire (cauterization) that suits the ailment, but I don't like to be (cauterized) branded with fire."
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 71: Medicine, Hadith #587
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: I heard the Prophet saying, "If there is any healing in your medicines, then it is in cupping, a gulp of honey or branding with fire (cauterization) that suits the ailment, but I don't like to be (cauterized) branded with fire."
This hadith is from the book of Medicine in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 587 in book 71 of volume 7.
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