Islam Question and Answer - The story of magic against the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and its meaning
Praise be to Allaah.
The hadeeth of magic against the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) is a saheeh hadeeth which was narrated by
al-Bukhaari, Muslim and other imams of hadeeth. Ahl al-Sunnah accept this
story and no one denies it except an innovator. There follows the text of
the hadeeth, its source, its meaning and the refutation by the scholars of
those who deny it.
It was narrated that ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with
her) said: A spell was put on the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) until he imagined that he had done a thing when he had
not done it. One day he made du’aa’ then he said: “Do you know that Allaah
has shown me in what lies my cure? Two men came to me and one of them sat at
my head and the other at my feet. One of them said to the other, ‘What is
ailing the man?’ He said: ‘He has been bewitched.’ He said: “Who has
bewitched him?’ He said: ‘Labeed ibn al-A’sam.’ He said, ‘With what?’ He
said: ‘With a comb, the hair that is stuck to it, and the skin of pollen of
a male date palm. He said: ‘Where is it?’ He said, ‘In the well of
Dharwaan.’” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
went out to the well, then he came back and said to ‘Aa’ishah when he came
back: “Its date palms are like the heads of devils.” I said: “Did you take
it out?” He said: “No. Allaah has healed me, and I feared that that might
bring evil upon the people.” Then the well was filled in.
Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 3268; Muslim, 2189.
'A
comb
and the hairs stuck to it and.' The first one asked, 'Where
is that?'
The other replied, '(That is) in the well of Dharwan.' " So
Allah's Apostle along with some of his companions went
there and came back saying, "O 'Aisha, the color of its
water is like the infusion of Henna leaves. The tops of
the date-palm trees near it are like the heads of the
devils." I asked. "O Allah's Apostle? Why did you not
show it (to the people)?" He said, "Since Allah cured me,
I disliked to let evil spread among the people." Then he
ordered that the well be filled up with earth
Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
Al-Maazari said: The innovators rejected this hadeeth and
claimed that it detracted from the status of Prophethood and cast aspersions
upon it. They said: Everything that leads to that is false. And they said
that accepting that meant that we could not be sure of the laws that he
prescribed, because it is possible that he imagined that he was seeing
Jibreel when he was not there, and that something had been revealed to him
when nothing had been revealed. Al-Maazari said: All of this is to be
rejected, because the evidence that the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) was truthful in what he conveyed from Allaah and that he
was infallible in conveying it is well established. The miracles bear
witness to his truthfulness and accepting something when there is evidence
to the contrary is false. With regard to some worldly matters for which he
was not sent and which have nothing to do with his message, then he was
exposed to the same as all other human beings, such as sickness. It is not
far-fetched to say that he could be made to imagine something with regard to
worldly matters that was not true, whilst at the same time he was protected
against such things with regard to matters of religion.
Some people said that what is meant by this hadeeth is that
he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) imagined that he had had
intercourse with his wives when he had not done so. This is something that
people frequently imagine in their dreams, so it is not far-fetched to say
that he could have imagined that when he was awake.
I – Ibn Hajar – say: This is what is stated clearly in the
report of Ibn ‘Uyaynah that is narrated by al-Bukhaari, which says: “until
he thought that he had had intercourse with his wives when he had not done
so.”
‘Iyaad said: Thus it is clear that the witchcraft prevailed
over his body and physical faculties, not over his discernment and beliefs…
Al-Mahlab said: The protection of the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) against the devils does not mean that they
would not try to harm him. In al-Saheeh it is narrated that a devil
wanted to spoil his prayer but Allaah protected him against him. The same
applies to witchcraft; the harm that affected him did not have any impact on
his conveying of the message, rather it was akin to any other kind of
sickness that afflicted him, such as having difficulty in speaking or doing
certain things, or experiencing illusions that did not last. Rather it
passed and Allaah foiled the plots of the devils. End quote.
Fath al-Baari, 10/226, 227
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
How the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) was guided to treat the spell which Jews cast on him:
This has been denied by some people who said that this could
not have happened to him, and they thought that it was a shortcoming and a
fault. But it is not as they think, rather it comes under the heading of
sickness and pain that befell him; it is a kind of illness which befell him
just as he was also affected by poison – there is no difference between the
two. It is proven in al-Saheehayn that ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be
pleased with her) said: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) was bewitched until he thought that he had had
intercourse with his wives when he had not done so, and that is the worst
kind of witchcraft.” Al-Qaadi ‘Iyaad said: Witchcraft is a kind of sickness
which happened to him like other kinds of sickness. That cannot be denied
and it does not detract from his Prophethood.
With regard to his
imagining that he had done something when he had not done it, that does not
have any impact on his truthfulness, because of the evidence to that effect
and the scholarly consensus that he was protected from that. Rather it was
one of the matters of this world which are not the reason for which he was
sent, and which are not the basis of his virtue and in which he was like all
other human beings. It is not far-fetched to say that he might imagine some
things that were not real, then things became clear to him later on, as
indeed happened. End quote.
Zaad al-Ma’aad, 4/124
So it is clear that the hadeeth is saheeh, and that it does
not detract from the status of Prophethood. Allaah, may He be glorified and
exalted, protected His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) and made him infallible before this spell was cast, during it and
afterwards. The spell did no more than make the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) think that he had had intercourse with his
wives when he had not done so; it had to do with a purely worldly matter,
and had nothing to do with his conveying of the message at all. The words of
the scholars quoted above are sufficient, and whoever wants to know more may
refer to Fath al-Baari and Zaad al-Ma’aad.
And Allaah knows best.
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