Sahih Bukhari
Narrated Anas:The climate of Medina did
not suit some people, so the Prophet
ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e.
his camels, and drink their milk and urine
(as a medicine). So they followed the
shepherd that is the camels and drank
their milk and urine till their bodies
became healthy. Then they killed the
shepherd and drove away the camels. When
the news reached the Prophet he sent some
people in their pursuit. When they were
brought, he cut their hands and feet and
their eyes were branded with heated pieces
of iron. Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 7, Bk. 71, No. 590. (Also, see
No. 589.)
Narrated Anas: Some people from the
tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and
embraced Islam. The climate of Medina did
not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them
to go to the (herd of milch) camels of
charity and to drink, their milk and urine
(as a medicine). They did so, and after
they had recovered from their ailment
(became healthy) they turned renegades
(reverted from Islam) and killed the
shepherd of the camels and took the camels
away. The Prophet sent (some people) in
their pursuit and so they were (caught
and) brought, and the Prophets ordered
that their hands and legs should be cut
off and that their eyes should be branded
with heated pieces of iron, and that their
cut hands and legs should not be
cauterized, till they die. Sahih Al-Bukhari Vol. 8, Bk. 82, No.
794.
Sahih Muslim
Anas reported: Eight men of the tribe
of 'Ukl came to Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) and swore allegiance to
him on Islam, but found the climate of
that land uncogenial to their health and
thus they became sick, and they made
complaint of that to Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him), and he said: Why
don't you go to (the fold) of our camels
along with our shepherd, and make use of
their milk and urine. They said: Yes. They
set out and drank their (camels') milk and
urine and regained their health. They
killed the shepherd and drove away the
camels. This (news) reached Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and he
sent them on their track and they were
caught and brought to him (the Holy
Prophet). He commanded about them, and
(thus) their hands and feet were cut off
and their eyes were gouged and then they
were thrown in the sun, until they died.
This hadith has been narrated on the
authority of Ibn al-Sabbah with a slight
variation of words. Sahih Muslim, Book 16, Number 4131
(Also, see 4130, 4132).
Of course, many Muslims find the idea of
drinking camel's urine to be repulsive; and,
as a result, they reject this hadith, even
though it is Muttafaq 'Alaih. Others
justify the hadith, and point out that horse urine
is the source of conjugated equine estrogens
(CEE) and available as Premarin®.
It is an estrogen treatment for menopausal
and premenopausal women. For them, it
is reason to praise Muhammad whom, they
claim, had
miraculous foreknowledge of modern medicine.
However, there is no specific evidence that
those who were ill were menopausal women or
that Muhammad suggested that camel urine
would cure a woman who had a low level of
estrogen.
Furthermore, those Muslims who think that
Muhammad was given miraculous scientific
knowledge only give lip service to this
hadith. They would never put camel urine
to their lips and drink it themselves. This
shows that they don't really believe the
so-called miracle in their hearts. If they did,
they would be asking to drink camel's
urine whenever they were ill. Since
they neither believe nor follow Muhammad's
advice in this
hadith, their verbal praise of Muhammad's miraculous medical knowledge rings
hollow and hypocritical.
Even more striking than the advice
to drink camel's milk and urine is the
horrific mutilation of the
murderers. Since Muhammad
commanded that their eyes be branded with a
hot iron, and since their hand and feet were
cut, tradition records that someone said,
"I saw one of them licking the earth
with his tongue till he died." When
Muhammad commanded them to be mutilated, he
did not allow the cuts on their hands and
feet to be cauterized. He wanted them
to die the most slow, painful, dry, and
agonizing death possible. (See Sahih Al-Bukhari No. 589 of Vol 7.)
Yet, the Qur'an claims Muhammad's mission
was only a mission of mercy for
peoples.
And We have sent you (O Muhammad SAW) not but as a mercy for the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
21:107 [Al-Hilali & Khan's translation]
Justice requires that a murderer must die,
but the mind that proposed this vile and
cruel mutilation was motivated by neither mercy
nor justice. It was mind motivated by hateful
revenge and thirsting for the pleasures of
seeing them go through the agonies of a
prolonged and cruel death.