down to his feet. He gave him some of it to lick and left him for a while. Then he washed it off him, and his skin peeled away; another skin grew for him, the hair that had fallen out grew again, and he recovered, returning to how he had been in health. The physicians and the people marveled at the strength of Saʿd’s faith in the hadith of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace.
Saʿd, may God have mercy on him, would use black seed for every illness that afflicted him, even inflammation of the eyes: when his eye became inflamed, he applied it as an eye salve and recovered immediately.
Counsel
Defend your Muslim brother’s honor as much as you can, and do not forsake him when his inviolability is breached. For it is established from the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, “No Muslim forsakes another Muslim in a place where his inviolability is breached and his honor diminished without God forsaking him in a place where he would wish for His support.”
I have never seen anyone realize such a thing in himself like Shaykh Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Daqqaq in the city of Fez in the Maghrib. He never backbit anyone, nor was anyone ever backbitten in his presence. He would say this about himself, and sometimes would say, “There has been no utterly truthful one after Abu Bakr al-Siddiq like me,” mentioning this. What an excellent master he was!
Our shaykh Abu ʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibn Qasim ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi, imam of the al-Azhar Mosque at ʿAyn al-Khayl in the city of Fez, compiled his account and virtues
