Volume 7, Book 71, Number 660:
Narrated Aisha:
Magic was worked on Allah’s Apostle so that he used to think that he had sexual relations with his
wives while he actually had not (Sufyan said: That is the hardest kind of magic as it has such an ef –
fect). Then one day he said, “O ‘Aisha do you know that Allah has instructed me concerning the mat –
ter I asked Him about? Two men came to me and one of them sat near my head and the other sat
near my feet. The one near my head asked the other. What is wrong with this man?’ The latter
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replied the is under the effect of magic The first one asked, Who has worked magic on him?’ The
other replied Labid bin Al-A’sam, a man from Bani Zuraiq who was an ally of the Jews and was a
hypocrite.’ The first one asked, What material did he use)?’ The other replied, ‘A comb and the hair
stuck to it.’ The first one asked, ‘Where (is that)?’ The other replied. ‘In a skin of pollen of a male date
palm tree kept under a stone in the well of Dharwan’ ” So the Prophet went to that well and took out
those things and said “That was the well which was shown to me (in a dream) Its water looked like
the infusion of Henna leaves and its date-palm trees looked like the heads of devils.” The Prophet ad –
ded, “Then that thing was taken out’ I said (to the Prophet ) “Why do you not treat yourself with
Nashra?” He said, “Allah has cured me; I dislike to let evil spread among my people.”