Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25064 — A man who is bewitched or poisoned

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). She said: One of the Jews of Banu Zurayq, whose name was Labid bin al-A'sam, cast magic on the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). (Its effect) reached the point that he would imagine that he had done something when he had not done it. Then, one day or one night, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated, then supplicated again, and then said: "O Aishah, do you know that Allah Almighty has told me what I asked Him about? Two men came to me; one of them sat at my head and the other at my feet. Then the one sitting at my head said to the one sitting at my feet, or the one at my feet said to the one sitting at my head: 'What is this man's ailment?' The other said: 'He has been affected by magic.' He asked: 'Who cast the magic on him?' The other said: 'Labid bin al-A'sam.' The first asked: 'In what did he cast the magic?' The other replied: 'In a comb, the hair that came out in it, and the spathe of a male date palm.' The first asked: 'Where are these things?' The other said: 'In the well of Dhu Arwan.'" So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to that well with a group of his Companions. Then he came back and said: "O Aishah, it was as if its water were water in which henna had been steeped, and as if its date palms were the heads of devils." She said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), why did you not burn it?" He said: "No, for Allah has granted me well-being, and I disliked stirring up any evil among the people by means of it." Then he gave orders concerning the well, and it was filled in.