this. For a period of time, I believed that this ḥadīth was weak, thinking that it was exclusively reported by Ibn Qutaybah, as al-Bayhaqī said. I had not come across it in "Musnad Abī Yaʿlá" and "Akhbār Iṣbahān." However, when I reviewed its isnād in both, it became clear to me that it is a strong isnād and that the mentioned exclusivity is incorrect. Therefore, I hastened to include it in this book to clear my conscience and fulfill the scholarly trust, even if it might open the way for an ignorant or spiteful person to criticize and disparage. I do not mind that as long as I am fulfilling my religious duty, hoping for its reward from Allāh alone. So if you, dear reader, find anything in my writings contrary to this verification, disregard it and rely on this, holding onto it firmly, for I do not think you will easily find anything like it. And Allāh is the Grantor of success. Then know that the life affirmed by this ḥadīth for the prophets (peace be upon them) is a barzakhī life, not related to the life of this world in any way. Therefore, it is obligatory to believe in it without drawing analogies or attempting to conceptualize it or liken it to what is known to us in worldly life. This is the stance that a believer must take in this regard: to believe in what is stated in the ḥadīth without adding to it with analogies and opinions, as the people of bidʿah do, some of whom have gone so far as to claim that his ﷺ life in his grave is a real life! They say: he eats, drinks, and has relations with his wives! It is only a barzakhī life, the reality of which is known only to Allāh.

- "Whoever performs cupping on the seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first [of the lunar month] will have a cure for every disease." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2/151) and from him by al-Bayhaqī (9/340):