The Prophet ﷺ remained for such and such a period imagining that he was approaching his wives when he was not.Ayesha said, "One day he said to me, 'Ayesha, Allah has informed me about a matter I asked Him about. Two men came to me. One sat at my feet and the other at my head. The one at my feet said to the one at my head, "What is wrong with this man?" He replied, "He has been bewitched." He asked, "Who bewitched him?" He answered, "Labid bin Asam." He asked, "With what?" He replied, "In the spathe of a male date palm, in a comb and the hair stuck to it, placed under a stone in the well of Dharwan."'"Then the Prophet ﷺ went to the well and said, 'This is the well I was shown. Its date palms looked as though their tops were the heads of devils, and its water looked like the infusion of henna.' The Prophet ﷺ then ordered that it be removed, and it was taken out."Ayesha said, "I said, 'Messenger of Allah, why not?' meaning, why did you not undo the spell publicly?The Prophet ﷺ replied, "As for Allah, He has cured me. As for me, I dislike stirring up evil among the people."She said, "Labid bin Asam was a man from Banu Zurayq, an ally of the Jews."
مكث النبي ﷺ كذا وكذا يخيل إليه أنه يأتي أهله ولا يأتي، قالت عائشة: فقال لي ذات يوم: يا عائشة إن الله أفتاني في أمر استفتيته فيه، أتاني رجلان فجلس أحدهما عند رجلي، والآخر عند رأسي، فقال الذي عند رجلي للذي عند رأسي: ما بال الرجل؟ قال: مطبوب يعني مسحورا، قال: ومن طبه؟ قال: لبيد بن أعصم، قال: وفيم؟ قال: في جف طلعة ذكر في مشط ومشاطة تحت رعوفة في بئر ذروان، فجاء النبي ﷺ فقال: هذه البئر التي أريتها كأن رؤوس نخلها رؤوس الشياطين وكأن ماءها نقاعة الحناء، فأمر به النبي ﷺ فأخرج. قالت عائشة: فقلت: يا رسول الله فهلا؟ تعني تنشرت، فقال النبي ﷺ: أما الله فقد شفاني، وأما أنا فأكره أن أثير على الناس شرا. قالت: ولبيد بن أعصم رجل من بني زريق حليف ليهود.
Bukhari narrated it in al-Adab (6063) from Humaydi, who said, "Sufyan (that is, Ibn Uyayna) narrated to us, Hisham bin Urwa narrated to us, from his father, from Ayesha," and he mentioned it.His saying, "answered me" means he responded to me in what I called upon him for. His saying, "two men" appears in some narrations to mean Jibreel and Mikail, and in another narration Jibreel alone, but the correct view is that they were two unnamed individuals.