Whenever Abdullah returned from attending to some need and reached the door, he would clear his throat and spit, not wanting to come upon us suddenly while we were doing something he might dislike.She said, "One day he came and cleared his throat. I had with me an old woman who was reciting incantations over me to cure me of erysipelas, so I hid her under the bed. He entered and sat down beside me, and he saw a string around my neck."He asked, "What is this string?"I replied, "A string on which an incantation has been recited for me."She said, He took it and cut it off, then said, "The family of Abdullah has no need of polytheism. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Incantations, amulets, and love-charms are polytheism.'"She said, I said to him, "Why do you say this? My eye used to discharge, and I would go regularly to such-and-such a Jewish man who would recite an incantation over it, and whenever he did so, it would settle down."He said, "That was only the work of Satan. He was poking it with his hand, and when the incantation was recited, he stopped. It would have been enough for you to say what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say, 'Remove the harm, Lord of mankind. Heal, for You are the Healer. There is no healing but Your healing, a healing that leaves behind no illness.'"
حدثنا أبو معاوية حدثنا الأعمش عن عمرو بن مرة عن يحيى بن الجزار عن ابن أخي زينب
كان عبد الله إذا جاء من حاجة فانتهى إلى الباب تنحنح وبزق كراهية أن يهجم منا على شيء يكرهه قالت وإنه جاء ذات يوم فتنحنح قالت وعندي عجوز ترقيني من الحمرة فأدخلتها تحت السرير فدخل فجلس إلى جنبي فرأى في عنقي خيطا قال ما هذا الخيط قالت قلت خيط أرقي لي فيه قالت فأخذه فقطعه ثم قال إن آل عبد الله لأغنياء عن الشرك سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول إن الرقى والتمائم والتولة شرك قالت فقلت له لم تقول هذا وقد كانت عيني تقذف فكنت أختلف إلى فلان اليهودي يرقيها وكان إذا رقاها سكنت قال إنما ذلك عمل الشيطان كان ينخسها بيده فإذا رقيتها كف عنها إنما كان يكفيك أن تقولي كما قال رسول الله ﷺ أذهب الباس رب الناس اشف أنت الشافي لا شفاء إلا شفاؤك شفاء لا يغادر سقما
Its chain is hasan. The nephew of Zaynab, the wife of Ibn Masud, his name is not known, but he is a taabi, so he follows the pattern of acceptance of his hadith. Zaynab the Thaqafi, the wife of Abdullah bin Masud, is a well-known female companion. The hadith was narrated by Abu Dawud, 4:11–12, through Abu Muawiya from Amash, and he abridged the story at its beginning. Munziri said, Ibn Majah narrated it from the nephew of Zaynab, from her, and in one manuscript, from the niece of Zaynab, from her, and it contains a story, and the narrator from Zaynab is unknown. It is found in Ibn Majah, 2:188, at length, through Abdullah bin Bishr from Amash.Ibn Athir said, "Tiwalah," with a kasrah on the taa and a fathah on the waw, refers to whatever makes a woman beloved to her husband through sorcery or the like. He classified it as shirk because they believed that it had an effect and could bring about something contrary to what Allah, the Exalted, had decreed."You are the Healer," in H it reads, "and You," and the added waw is an error, corrected from K. "Saqam," with two fathahs, or with a dammah on the seen and a sakin on the qaf, means illness.