Chapter 107

Giving the sick person what he craves

Remembrance 1
WE RELATE FROM the books of Ibn Mājah and Ibn as-Sunnī with a weak isnād from Anas Honorific symbol, who related that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol went to visit a sick man and asked: “Do you have an appetite for anything? Do you have an appetite for cake?” The man said: “Yes.” So he requested it for him. [1].
We relate in the books of at-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah from ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Āmir Honorific symbol, who reported that the Messenger of Allah Honorific symbol said: “Do not force your sick to eat and drink, for Allah feeds them and gives them to drink.” [2].According to at-Tirmidhī this is a ḥasan hadith.

References

[1] Ibn Mājah (3441) and Ibn as-Sunnī (545).
[2] At-Tirmidhī (2041), Ibn Mājah (3444); its chain is ḥasan thanks to its supporting narrations; al-Futūḥāt (4/90).