Praise be to Allaah.
The hadeeth
referred to by the questioner is a saheeh hadeeth, in which it says that
some people came to Madeenah and fell sick. The Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) told them to drink the milk and urine of
camels, and they recovered and grew fat. In the story it also says that they
apostatized and killed the camel-herder, then the Muslims caught them and
executed them. Narrated by al-Bukhaari (2855) and Muslim (1671).
With regard
to the health benefits of drinking the milk and urine of camels, they are
many, and they are well known to the earlier generations of medical science
and they have been proven by modern scientific research.
Ibn
al-Qayyim said:
The author
of al-Qanoon (the Canon) – i.e. the doctor Ibn Seena
(Avicenna) – said:
The most
beneficial of urine is the urine of Bedouin camels which are called
najeeb. End quote.
Zaad
al-Ma’aad (4/47, 48).
In the
Emirati newspaper al-Ittihaad (issue no. 11172, Sunday 6 Muharram
1427 AH/5 February 2006) it says:
One of the
most important things for which camels are raised is their milk, which is
efficacious in treating many illnesses, including hepatitis, and the
digestive system in general, various types of cancer and other diseases.
In an
article by Dr Ahlaam al-‘Awadi, which was published in al-Da’wah
magazine, issue no. 1938, 25 Safar 1425 AH/15 April 2004 CE, about the
diseases which can be treated with camel’s milk, as proven by experience, it
says that there are many benefits in camel’s milk. There follows some of
what was said in the article by Dr. Ahlaam:
Camel’s
urine is efficacious in the treatment of skin diseases such as ringworm,
tinea and abscesses, sores that may appear on the body and hair, and dry and
wet ulcers. Camel’s urine brings the secondary benefits of making the hair
lustrous and thick, and removing dandruff from the scalp. Camel’s milk is
also beneficial in treating hepatitis, even if it has reached an advanced
stage where medicine is unable to treat it. End quote.
In the
al-Jazeerah al-Sa’oodiyyah newspaper (issue no. 10132, Rabee’ al-Awwal
1421 AH) there is a quotation from the book Al-Ibl Asraar wa i’jaaz
(The camel: secrets and wonders) by Darmaan ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azeez Aal Darmaan
and Sanad ibn Mutlaq al-Subay’i: