the congregational mosque when ʿImrān ibn Ḥusayn said to me, “Be careful how you relate this, for I was one of the party that night.”
I replied, “You know better.”
He asked, “Which people are you from?”
I answered, “From the Anṣār.”
He said, “You are more familiar with your own account.” ʿImrān went on, “I was present that night, and I did not think anyone had preserved it as accurately as I did.

In the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad—and Abu Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī transmits it as well—al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib said:
“We were with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, when we came upon a well containing very little water. Six of us— I being the seventh, or perhaps seven and I the eighth—climbed down into it. A bucket was lowered to me while the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was standing on the rim of the well. We filled it halfway, or nearly two-thirds full, and I hoisted it up to the Messenger of Allah.
I tried with my own vessel to find even a mouthful that I could pour down my throat, but I found none. Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, dipped his hands into it and said whatever Allah willed him to say. The bucket was then returned to us with its contents still in it. He said: