(Friday Sermon - March 8, 2019 )

Background

Hazrat Jubair^(ra) bin Iyaas’ father’s name was Iyaas bin Khalid. He participated in the Battle of Badr. He belonged to the Banu Zuraiq branch of the Khazraj tribe. Hazrat Abdullah^(ra) bin Muhammad states that his name was Jubair bin Ilyas. His name has also been recorded as Jabar bin Iyaas in another narration. (Al-Tabqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 444, Jubair^(ra) bin Iyaas, Dar-ul-Kutb al-Ilimiyya, Beirut, 1990).

It is mentioned in the Ahadith that a Jewish man cast a magic spell on the Holy Prophet^(sa) and that the Holy Prophet^(sa) was influenced by it – God forbid. It is mentioned in narrations that the spell was cast on a comb and some strands of hair and thrown into a well named Zhi Arwan. The Holy Prophet^(sa) later had it removed.

It is written in Fath-ul-Bari, a commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, that it was Hazrat Jubair^(ra) bin Iyaas who took out the comb and the strands of hair from the well of Zhi Arwan. According to another narration, it was Hazrat Qais^(ra) bin Mihsan who pulled them out. (Fath-ul-Bari, Imam ibn Hijar, Kitab-ul-Tibb, Baab Al-Sehr, Hadith no. 5763, Vol. 10, p. 282, Qadeemi Kutb Khana Karachi)

For a detailed account of the reality of “magic” on the Holy Prophet^(sa), see the Friday Sermon link: (Friday Sermon - March 8, 2019 )