Hadith 196

And from him, from the number, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abdullah Bin Jundab, from Sufyan Bin Al Simt who said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said to me: ‘When the child reaches four months, then get his cupping done during every month in the fovea (of the head), for it would lighten his saliva, and bring down the heat from his head and his body’’. [222]
And from him, from Ali Bin Muhammad, from Al-Hassan Bin Al-Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan Al Makfouf who said, ‘One of our companions narrated to me from one of the vein-cutters of Al-Askar, from the Christians, that Abu Muhammad-asws had sent for him one day during the time of Al-Zohar Salat, ‘He-asws said to me: ‘Cut this vein! ’
He said, ‘And he-asws gave (indicated to me) a vein I did not understand it from the veins which to cut. I said within myself, ‘I have not seen a matter stranger than this. He-asws is instructing me to cut a vein during the time of Al-Zohar, and it isn’t a time for cutting the vein, and secondly it is a vein I do not understand it’. Then he-asws said to me: ‘Wait and be in the house! ’ When it was evening, he-asws called me and said: ‘Release the blood! ’ So I released it. Then he-asws said to me: ‘Withhold! ’ So I withheld. Then he-asws said to me: ‘Be in the house! ’ When it was midnight, he-asws sent for me and said to me: ‘Release the blood! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I was even more surprised than my first astonishment, and I disliked to ask him-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I released, and the blood came out white, as if it was salt’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he-asws said to me: ‘Withhold! ’ So I withheld’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he-asws said: ‘Be in the house! ’ When it was morning, he-asws instructed his-asws house manager to give me three Dinars. I took these and went out until I came to Ibn Bakhtishou, the Christian. I narrated the story to him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He said to me, ‘By Allah-azwj! I do not understand what you are saying, nor do I recognise it among anything from the medicines, nor have I read it in a book, nor do I know in my time there being anyone more knowledgeable with the books of Christianity than so and so, the Persian, so go out to him! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I hired a boat to Al Basra and came to Al Ahvaz. Then I came to Faris to my companion. I informed him the news’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He said to me, ‘Respite me a few days’. I respited him. Then I came to him, demanding (the explanation)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He said to me, ‘This which you are narrating from this man is what the Messiah-as had done once during his-as era’’. [223]
(The book) ‘Al Kharaij’ –
‘He said, ‘A Christian doctor at Al-Rayy narrated, and a hundred years had come upon him, and more, and he said, ‘I was a student of Bakhtishou, doctor of Al-Mutawakkil, and he had chosen me. Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Muhammad-asws Bin Al-Reza-asws sent a message to him that he should send to him the most special of his companions with him to cut his-asws vein. He chose me and said, ‘A son-asws of Al-Reza-asws has sought from me someone who can cut his-asws vein, so go to him-asws, and he-asws is the most knowledgeable during this day of ours than the ones who are beneath the sky. Be careful not to raise any objection regarding whatever he-asws instructs you with! ’
I went to him-asws. He-asws instructed me to be in his-asws room and said: ‘Be here until I-asws see you! ’’
He (the doctor) said, ‘And the time which I had entered to see him-asws in, was in my view, good, praised for cutting the vein. He-asws called me to him-asws during a time other than the praised, and he-asws presented a large tray. I cut the vein in the upper back. The blood did not cease coming until it filled the tray. Then he-asws said to me: ‘Cut! ’ I cut (the flow of blood), and washed his-asws hand and tied it, and he-asws returned me to the room, and he-asws forwarded from the meal, the hot and the cold, a lot of things, and I remained up to late afternoon. Then he-asws called me. He-asws said: ‘Release (the blood)! ’ And he-asws called for the tray for that. I released the blood came out until it filled the tray. He-asws said: ‘Cut (the flow)! I cut (the flow of blood), and tied his-asws hand, and he-asws returned me to the room. I spent the night in it. When it was morning and the sun appeared, he-asws called me, and presented that tray, and said: ‘Release! ’ I released, and there emerged from his-asws hand like the yoghurt milk, until it filled the tray. Then he-asws said: ‘Cut (the flow)! ’ I cut, and tied his-asws hand, and he-asws forwarded to me fifty dinars beneath a cloth and said: ‘Take this and excuse (me-asws), and leave’. I took (that) and said, ‘The master had instructed me with the service’. He-asws said: ‘Yes. Be a good companion to the one who accompanies you from the Monastery of Al-Aqoul’. I came to Bakhtishou and told the story to him. He said, ‘The wise ones are concurring upon that most of what can happen to be in the human body are seven Mann of blood (1 Mann = 40 kg. ), and this which you are narrating, if spring water had come out it would have been strange, and even stranger is what is regarding the milk! ’
He thought for a while. Then we remained for three days with its nights reading the books upon that we might find any mention of this vein-cutting (having occurred) in the world, but we could not find. Then he said, ‘There does not remain among the Christians, anyone more knowledgeable with the medicine than a Monk at Al-Aqoul Monastery’. He wrote a letter to him mentioned in it what has transpired. I went out and called out to him. He overlooked upon me. He said, ‘Who are you? ’ I said, ‘Companion of Bakhtishou! ’ He said, ‘Is there his letter with you? ’ I said, ‘Yes! ’
He lowered down a bag to me. I made the letter to be in it. He raised it and read the letter and descended immediately. He said, ‘Are you the one who cut the vein of the man? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Beatitude be for your mother! ’, and he rode a mule, and we travelled. We arrived at Surmanrayy, and there remained from the night, a third o