It is narrated from Sayyidah al-Shifa' bint Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she used to perform some ruqyahs in the days of Jahiliyyah. She had pledged allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in Makkah before the Hijrah, then she came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) as an emigrant and said: O Messenger of Allah! I used to perform some ruqyahs in the Jahiliyyah, and I intend to present them to you (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Present them." So she recited those words to him (peace and blessings be upon him), among which was the ruqyah for "namlah" (a kind of skin sore). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Perform ruqyah with it, and teach it to Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) as well." (The words were:) 'Bismillah, salawa sulbu jabr, ta'awwudhan min afwahiha, wa la tadurru ahadan, Allahumma ikshif al-ba's rabb al-nas' (In the name of Allah, the prayers of the back of Jabr (a person so named; meaning healing), seeking refuge from their (the sores') mouths, and may it harm no one; O Allah, Lord of mankind, remove the affliction). Sayyidah al-Shifa' (may Allah be pleased with her) relates that she would recite this ruqyah seven times over a stick of turmeric and put it in a clean place, then rub it on a stone and apply it as a paste on those sores.

Al-Asma'i says that "al-namlah" refers to the sores or pustules that break out on the sides of the body or on other parts of the body.

It is narrated from Sayyidah al-Shifa' bint Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: One day I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), asked him (peace and blessings be upon him) for something and complained of my straitened circumstances. He (peace and blessings be upon him) began offering his excuses to me, and I began to reproach him (peace and blessings be upon him) a little (out of affection and closeness). She related: Then the time of the Zuhr prayer came, and I went to the house of my daughter, who was married to Shurahbil bin Hasanah. I found her husband at home, so I began to reproach him too and said: The time for prayer has come and you are still sitting at home? He said: O aunt! Do not reproach me. I had only two garments, one of which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) has borrowed (to wear). (Al-Shifa' says:) Hearing this, I said to myself: I am reproaching him (peace and blessings be upon him) while his (peace and blessings be upon him) state (of self-sacrifice and poverty) is such that he does not even have a garment of his own to wear! Shurahbil said that even of those two garments, one had a patch which we had mended ourselves.