Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 230

Permission to cut veins
1 Ḥadīth

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) الرَّجُلُ يَشْرَبُ الدَّوَاءَ وَ يَقْطَعُ الْعِرْقَ وَ رُبَّمَا انْتَفَعَ بِهِ وَ رُبَّمَا قَتَلَهُ قَالَ يَقْطَعُ وَ يَشْرَبُ.


230. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said: I said to Abu Abdullah (a.s), ‘The man drinks the medicine, and cuts the vein, and perhaps it benefits him and perhaps it kills him’. He (a.s) said: ‘He can cut and he can drink’.