Sahih al-Bukhari 5763

Translation

✧ A man from Banu Zurayq named Labid b. al-A'sam cast a spell on the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, until he would imagine that he had done something when he had not done it. One day or night, while he was with me, he supplicated repeatedly. Then he said, "O Aisha, do you know that Allah ﷻ has answered me concerning that about which I sought His answer? Two men came to me. One sat by my head and the other by my feet, and one of them said to his companion:" "What ails the man?" He replied, "He is bewitched." He asked, "Who bewitched him?" He replied, "Labid b. al-A'sam." He asked, "In what?" He replied, "In a comb, the hair removed by combing, and the spathe of a male date-palm cluster." He asked, "Where is it?" He replied, "In the well of Dharwan." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to it with some of his Companions. When he returned, he said, "O Aisha, its water looked like an infusion of henna, and its date palms looked like the heads of devils." I said, "O Messenger of Allah, shall I not take it out?" He said, "Allah ﷻ has healed me, and I disliked stirring up evil among the people because of it." He then gave orders concerning it, and it was buried.

Notes

• ✧ Abu Usamah, Abu Damrah, and b. Abi al-Zinad followed him in narrating from Hisham. Al-Layth and b. Uyaynah reported from Hisham: “in a comb and mushaqah.” It is said that mushatah is what comes out of the hair when it is combed, while mushaqah is the tow of flax.

• تَابَعَهُ أَبُو أُسَامَةَ وَأَبُو ضَمْرَةَ وَابْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ هِشَامٍ. وَقَالَ اللَّيْثُ وَابْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ هِشَامٍ: فِي مُشْطٍ وَمُشَاقَةٍ. يُقَالُ: الْمُشَاطَةُ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ إِذَا مُشِطَ، وَالْمُشَاقَةُ مِنْ مُشَاقَةِ الْكَتَّانِ.

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 24348al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5022al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5932Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 23982Musnad al-Bazzar 4310Musnad al-Bazzar 4311

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
   هِشَامٍثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   عن
4. 4
   ʿĪsā b. Yūnus

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AH
   عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَثقة مأمون
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 219 AH, or 220-odd AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُوسَىثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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