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


Chapter
  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