Musnad Ahmad 24300

Translation

✧ A Jew from the Jews of Banu Zurayq, called Labid b. al-A'sam, bewitched the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would imagine that he had done something when he had not done it. She said: Until one day - or one night - the Messenger of Allah ﷺ supplicated, then supplicated again, then said, "O Aishah, I have perceived that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has given me a ruling concerning what I asked Him about. Two men came to me; one sat at my head and the other at my feet. The one at my head said to the one at my feet, or the one at my feet said to the one at my head, 'What is the man's ailment?' He said, 'He is bewitched.' He said, 'Who bewitched him?' He said, 'Labid b. al-A'sam.' He said, 'In what?' He said, 'In a comb and hair combings and the spathe of a male date palm.' He said, 'Where is it?' He said, 'In the well of Arwan.'" She said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to it with some of his companions, then came back and said, "O Aishah, its water was as if it were the infusion of henna, and its palm trees as if they were heads of devils." I said, "O Messenger of Allah, why did you not burn it?" He said, "No. As for me, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has cured me, and I disliked to stir up evil among the people because of it." She said: So he ordered it to be buried.

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• Dāraquṭnī

  والمتصل أصح

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 24882

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامٌثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ibn Numayr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AH
   ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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