Hadith #208

Arabic Text

English Translation

Hāshim narrated to us: Sulaymān narrated to us, from Ḥumayd, from Yūnus, from al-Barāʾ, who said: We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a march when we came upon a well with little water. Six of us went down into it, myself being the sixth, to draw water. A bucket was lowered to us while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was on the edge of the well. We filled it halfway — or nearly two-thirds — and it was raised to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Al-Barāʾ said: I almost used my own vessel hoping to find something to put in my mouth, but found nothing. The bucket was raised to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he dipped his hand in it and said what Allah willed him to say. Then the bucket was returned to us with what was in it. I saw one of us pulled out wrapped in a garment for fear of drowning. Then it overflowed — meaning it flowed like a river. ʿAbdullāh said: Hudbah also narrated to us: Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl from Yūnus from al-Barāʾ — something similar, and he also said: "to draw water."