Al-Khiṣāl

Hadith 367
health-hygiene
3-125 وفي حديث آخر: أنه إن زاد العاطس على ثلاث قيل له: "شفاك الله" لان ذلك من علة
3-125 In another tradition we read, “If one sneezes for more than three times they tell him, ‘May God heal you!’ since that is due to an illness.”
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

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