التمائم وحدودها الشرعية
A caution drawn from within the tradition itself, marking the line between legitimate Prophetic ruqyah (Qur'an and known supplication, believing Allah alone cures) and amulets or charms treated as independently potent.
إِنَّ الرُّقَى وَالتَّمَائِمَ وَالتِّوَلَةَ شِرْكٌ
“Indeed, (impermissible) incantations, amulets, and love-charms are shirk (association with Allah in worship).” (meaning, not a literal translation)
Scholars distinguish this from the Fatiha-ruqyah and hand-on-pain entries elsewhere on this site: those pair Qur'an/dhikr with a belief that the cure comes from Allah alone, which the tradition permits and even encourages.
Ibn al-Qayyim devotes real space in Zad al-Ma'ad to this distinction, precisely because the genre of Prophetic medicine was, even in his own time, sometimes blurred with folk superstition he considered outside its bounds.