965 — Abū al-Qāsim Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Azīz al-Baghawī narrated to us, saying: Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Ayshī Abū Bakr and Uthmān ibn Abī Shayba narrated to us, saying: Hammād ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who related that Gabriel, peace be upon him, came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was playing with the other boys. He threw him to the ground and opened his chest over his heart. He extracted his heart, removed a clot from it, and said, “This was Satan’s share of you.” He then washed it with Zamzam water in a golden basin, pieced it together, and restored it to its place.

The boys ran to his mother—meaning his wet nurse—and said, “Muhammad has been killed!” They then met him coming toward them, his face drained of color. Anas said, “I could see the scar left by the stitching on the chest of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”