Ayesha reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was bewitched, to the point that he would imagine he had been with his wives when he had not.Sufyan commented, "This is the most severe form of sorcery, when it reaches that state."The Prophet ﷺ said, "Ayesha, do you know that Allah has answered me concerning the matter I asked Him about? Two men came to me. One sat by my head and the other by my feet. The one at my head asked the other, 'What is wrong with this man?' He answered, 'He has been bewitched.' He asked, 'Who bewitched him?' He replied, 'Labid bin al-Asam, a man from Banu Zurayq, an ally of the Jews and a hypocrite.' He asked, 'With what?' He said, 'With a comb and the hair caught in it.' He asked, 'And where is it?' He replied, 'In the spathe of a male date palm, beneath a stone in the well of Dharwan.'"Ayesha continued, "The Prophet ﷺ went to the well and brought it out. He said, 'This is the well I was shown. Its water looked like an infusion of henna, and its palm trees were like the heads of devils.' So he had it removed."Ayesha said, "I asked, 'Will you not undo it by counter-charm?'"He replied, "By Allah, Allah has already cured me, and I dislike stirring up evil against anyone."
كان رسول الله ﷺ سحر حتى كان يرى أنه يأتي النساء ولا يأتيهن، قال سفيان: وهذا أشد ما يكون من السحر، إذا كان كذا، فقال: يا عائشة أعلمت أن الله قد أفتاني فيما استفتيته فيه، أتاني رجلان فقعد أحدهما عند رأسي، والآخر عند رجلي فقال الذي عند رأسي للآخر: ما بال الرجل؟ قال: مطبوب. قال: ومن طبه؟ قال: لبيد بن أعصم رجل من بني زريق حليف ليهود كان منافقا قال: وفيم؟ قال: في مشط ومشاطة قال: وأين؟ قال: في جف طلعة ذكر تحت رعوفة في بئر ذروان قالت: فأتى النبي ﷺ البئر حتى استخرجه فقال: هذه البئر التي أريتها وكأن ماءها نقاعة الحناء وكأن نخلها رؤوس الشياطين قال: فاستخرج قالت: فقلت أفلا؟- أي تنشرت- فقال: أما والله فقد شفاني الله، وأكره أن أثير على أحد من الناس شرا.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Medicine (5765) from Abdullah bin Muhammad, who said, I heard Ibn Uyayna say, "The first one to narrate it to us was Ibn Jurayj, who said, 'The family of Urwa told me, on the authority of Urwa.' So I asked Hisham about it, and he narrated it to us from his father, from Ayesha," and he then related it.