Anas ibn Malik [Allah be pleased with him] narrates that, “I saw the Messenger of Allah [Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him] while the barber was shaving his head [after the Farewell Hajj], and his Companions were circling around him, ensuring that a single hair would not fall except into the hands of one of them.”
[Sahih Muslim]
Uthman ibn Abdullah ibn Mawhab said that, “My family sent me to Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet [Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, after he had passed away] with a bowl of water,” and [the narrator] held three fingers together to indicate the size of the small container that held some of the blessed hairs of the Prophet, “And whenever anyone would be afflicted by the evil eye or any type of harm, they would send a vessel [of water] to her [to dip the hairs into, then drink for its healing ability]. So I peered inside the container, and inside I saw a few reddish hairs [of the Prophet, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him].”
[Sahih al-Bukhari]
Imam al-Ayni mentions in his commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari that the sick people who drank of this water would be healed, and then the hairs would be returned to its container.
[al-Ayni, Umdat al-Qari]
Khalid ibn al-Walid, took some of the hairs from the Prophet [Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him] while the latter was shaving his head. He would kiss those locks, and press them against his eyes out of reverence and love.
He placed those hairs in the front of his cap, which he wore to every one of his battles thereafter, and later remarked, “I put them in the front of my cap and I did not face any direction [in battle], except that victory would be granted for me there,” and in another narration, “I did not attend any battle except that I was given victory by means of them [ie. the blessed hairs].”
[Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah]
Once, when his cap fell onto the battlefield in the thick of a great battle, he cried “My cap! My cap!” and went after it at all costs. One of his kinsmen snatched it up from amidst the melee and returned it. When he was later chided for putting himself and his men at risk of losing their lives for a simple cap, Khalid [may Allah be pleased with him] responded that wasn’t the cap he wanted, but that it contained the blessed hairs.
These are just two incidents showing how the early Muslims used the blessed hairs of the Prophet [Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him] for cures and blessings, and a means of divine assistance.
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