How sound are the narrations that speak of the preventive and curative benefits of salt for illnesses, and their having been reported from the Prophet (PBUH) and the Companions?
The statements can be summarized as follows: The first narration from Aisha was mentioned by Al-Daylami with the wording, "Whoever eats salt before everything and after everything; Allah will ward off from him three hundred and thirty types of afflictions, the least of which is leprosy." Al-Daylami's book is a repository for weak hadiths. The second has no sound chain of narration, and it includes Abdullah ibn Ja'far al-Madini and Abdul Malik ibn Abi Sulayman al-Fihri, both of whom are weak. As for the third narration, Al-Suyuti included it among the fabricated hadiths, and it has four defects: Abdul Rahim ibn Waqid al-Khurasani (weak), Hammad ibn Amr al-Nasabi (abandoned), Al-Sari ibn Khalid ibn Shaddad (unknown), and an断续 chain of narration.
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