Book 26. KITAB AS-SALAM
(Book on Salutions and Greetings)

1. The rider should first greet the pedestrian and the small number should greet the large number of persons
2. The duty that one owes on the roadside is to respond the greeting of as-Salam-u-'Alaikum
3. The right of a Muslim upon another Muslim is that his greeting should be responded
4. Prohibition of saying first as-Salam-u-Alaikum to the people of the book, and how their salutations should be responded
5. Excellence of greeting the children
6. Permissibility of giving permission to enter the house (by raising the curtain or making some other signs like it)
7. Permissibility of women going out in the fields for easing themselves
8. It is prohibited to sit with a strange lady in privacy or to enter her house when she is alone
9. It is excellent to tell a man when one is accompanied by one's wife or Mahram lady that she is one's wife or Mahram and to remove his doubt
10. If a person comes to a meeting and finds space there he should sit there, otherwise he should depart
11. If a person goes away from the place occupied by him, he has a better right to occupy it after coming back
12. The entrance of the Eunuch (in a house where there are female inmates) is prohibited
13. Permission of seating a woman on the ride behind one's back if one finds her completely exhausted in the way
14. It is prohibited for two persons to converse secretly without the consent of the third one
15. Medicine and spell
16. Magic and spell
17. Poison
18. The excellence of curing the patient with the help of incantation
19. Curing of the patient with the recitation of Mu'awwidhatan (Suras CXIII., CXIV)
20. The excellence of curing (with the help of incantation) the influence of the evil eye and small pustules and the poison (especially of snake and scorpion)
21. Permissibility of getting reward for incantations from the words of the Qur'an
22. Excellence of placing one's hands at the spot of pain at the time of practising incantation
23. Seeking refuge against satan from the evil promptings in prayer
24. There is a remedy for every malady and its excellence to get treatment
25. Disapproval of Applying Remedy by Pouring the medicine in the mouth forcibly.
26. Treatment with the help of Indians Aloeswood
27. Remedy by applying Nigella seed
28. Talbina gives confort to the patient
29. Remedy with help of honey
30. Plague, ill omen and magic
31. There is no inferction, no evil omen, no Hama, no safar, no star promising rain, no ghoul and the ill should not go to those who are healthy
32. Omen, divinations and that which is unlucky
33. Kahanat (Divination) is prohibited and it is forbidden to go to Kahin
34. It is advisable to avoid mixing with the leper
35. Killing of snakes
36. The desirability of killing a Gecko (House Lizard)
37. Prohibition of killing the ants
38. It is forbidden to kill the cat
39. The merit of supplying water and food to animals

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