Ayesha reported that the Prophet ﷺ was bewitched, to the point that he would imagine he had done something when he had not done it. Then one day, while he was with me, he called upon Allah and called upon Him again, and then said, "Ayesha, are you aware that Allah has answered me concerning what I asked Him about?"I said, "What is that, Messenger of Allah?"He said, "Two men came to me. One sat at my head and the other at my feet. Then one of them said to his companion, 'What ails the man?' The other replied, 'He has been bewitched.' He asked, 'Who bewitched him?' He answered, 'Labid bin al-Asam, the Jew from Banu Zurayq.' He asked, 'With what?' He replied, 'With a comb, hair from a comb, and the spathe of a male date palm.' He asked, 'Where is it?' He replied, 'In the well of Dhu Arwan.'"The Prophet ﷺ then went out with some of his companions to the well and looked at it, and there were date palms around it. He returned to Ayesha and said, "By Allah, it was as if its water were soaked with henna, and its palm trees were like the heads of devils."I said, "Messenger of Allah, did you take it out?"He said, "No. As for me, Allah has cured and healed me, and I feared that I might stir up evil among the people because of it." Then he ordered that the well be covered over, and it was filled in.
سحر النبي ﷺ حتى إنه ليخيل إليه أنه يفعل الشيء وما فعله، حتى إذا كان ذات يوم وهو عندي، دعا الله ودعاه، ثم قال: أشعرت يا عائشة أن الله قد أفتاني فيما استفتيته فيه؟ قلت: وما ذاك يا رسول الله؟ قال: جاءني رجلان، فجلس أحدهما عند رأسي، والآخر عند رجلي، ثم قال أحدهما لصاحبه: ما وجع الرجل؟ قال: مطبوب، قال: ومن طبه؟ قال: لبيد بن الأعصم اليهودي من بني زريق، قال: فيما ذا؟ قال: في مشط ومشاطة وجف طلعة ذكر، قال: فأين هو؟ قال: في بئر ذي أروان، قال: فذهب النبي ﷺ في أناس من أصحابه إلى البئر، فنظر إليها وعليها نخل، ثم رجع إلى عائشة فقال: والله لكأن ماءها نقاعة الحناء، ولكأن نخلها رؤوس الشياطين، قلت: يا رسول الله أفأخرجته؟ قال: لا، أما أنا فقد عافاني الله وشفاني، وخشيت أن أثور على الناس منه شرا، وأمر بها فدفنت.
Bukhari related it in the Book of Medicine (5766) from Ubayd bin Ismail, who said, Abu Usama told us, from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ayesha, and he related it.Muslim related it in the Book of Greetings (2189) from Abu Kurayb, who said, Abu Usama told us, Hisham told us, from his father, from Ayesha, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was bewitched." Abu Kurayb related the hadith with its two accounts similarly to the hadith of Ibn Numayr, and in it he said, "So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went to the well and looked at it, and it had palm trees growing over it." And she said, "I said, 'Messenger of Allah, will you not bring it out?'" without saying, "Will you not burn it?" and without mentioning, "So I ordered that it be buried."As for his statement, "Labid bin al-Asam the Jew, from Banu Zurayq," the correct version, as found in the narration of Sufyan and others, is "Labid bin al-Asam, a man from Banu Zurayq, an ally of the Jews," because Banu Zurayq is a well-known clan of Khazraj. He was called "the Jew" on account of the alliance, not because he followed the religion of the Jews.