Hadith Studies

Between Cure and Context: Rethinking Prophetic Medicine

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract This paper revisits “prophetic medicine” (tibb al-nabawi) by addressing a central confusion in its interpretation: the conflation of truth with universal applicability. Hadith reports describing cures are often treated either as binding prescriptions or dismissed as context-bound and unreliable. Both readings, it is argued, are mistaken. Drawing on classical scholarship, the Read more

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Between Duty and Death: Prophet Musa Slaps an Angel

Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract Few hadith reports have been quoted as often and understood as poorly as the account of Prophet Musa striking the Angel of Death. To critics, it appears to depict prophetic rashness, angelic vulnerability, and even resistance to divine decree. To others, it is waved away as an awkward relic preserved uncritically

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