(The book) ‘Majaalis’ of the sheykh – from a group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al Bagawy, from Dawood Bin Amro Al Zaby, from Abdullah Bin Mubarak, from Yahya Bin Ayoub, from Abdullah Bin Zajar, from Ali Bin Yazeed, from Al Qasim Bin Abu Umama, ‘From the Prophet -saww : ‘From the complete consolation of the sick is that one of your hands should be placed upon his forehead, or his hand.
He should ask him how he is, and there should be salutations between you with shaking of the hands’’.
And from him, by this chain, from Al Bagawy, from Sabeeh Bin Dinar, from Afeef Bin Salim, from Ayoub Bin Utbah, from Al Qasim, from Abu Umama who said, ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘From complete consolation of the sick when you enter to see him is that you place your hand upon his head, and you should say, ‘How is your morning?
Or ‘How is your evening?’ When you sit in his presence, the Mercy (of Allah -azwj ) immerses you, and when you go out from his presence, going through it front and back’ – and gestured by his ‑saww hand to his -saww waist’’.