English translation
5766. Narrated 'Aishah رضي الله عنها Magic was worked on Allāh's Messenger ﷺ so that he began to imagine that he had done something although he had not. One day while he was with me, he invoked Allāh and invoked for a long period and then said, "O 'Aishah! Do you know that Allāh has instructed me regarding the matter I asked him about?" I asked, "What is that, O Allāh's Messenger?" He said, "Two men came to me; one of them sat near my head and the other sat near my feet. One of them asked his companion, 'What is the disease of this man?' The other replied, 'He is under the effect of magic'. The first one asked, 'Who has worked magic on him?' The other replied, 'Labīd bin Al-A'sam, a Jew from the tribe of Bani Zuraīq.' The (first one asked), 'With what has it been done?' The other replied, 'With a comb and the hair stuck to it and a skin of the pollen of a male date-palm tree.' The first one asked, 'Where is it?' The other replied, 'In the well of Dharwān.' Then the Prophet ﷺ went along with some of his Companions to the well and looked at that, and there were date-palms near to it. Then he returned to me and said, "By Allāh, the water of that well was (red) like the infusion of Hinna leaves, and its date-palms were like the heads of devils." I said, "O Allāh's Messenger! Did you take those materials out?" He said, "No! As for me, Allāh has healed me and cured me and I was afraid that (by letting it known to the people) I would spread evil among them. Then he ordered that the well be filled up with earth, and it was filled up with earth."