a man from the clan of Banī Salāmān ibn Saʿd, who transmitted from his father, from his mother, from her maternal uncle—or, according to another wording, from his or her maternal uncle—Ḥabīb ibn Fuwaiq, related the following:

His father went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while both his eyes were completely white and he could see nothing at all. The Prophet asked him, “What has happened to you?” He replied, “I was tending a camel of mine when my foot trod on some snake eggs, and I lost my sight.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then blew into his eyes, and he regained his vision. I later saw him threading a needle, although he was eighty years old, and his eyes were still white.

Al-Bayhaqī comments: This is how it appears in his book. Others record the name as Ḥabīb ibn Mudrik.

He adds: A similar ḥadith has already been mentioned about Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān whose eye was struck so that the eyeball fell out; the Messenger of Allah ﷺ put it back in place, and afterwards he could not tell which of his eyes had been injured.

I say: That incident was cited earlier under the account of the Battle of Uḥud.

We also recorded, in the story of the killing of Abū Rāfiʿ, that the Prophet ﷺ passed his blessed hand over the leg of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAtik—whose shin had been broken—and it was healed instantly.

Al-Bayhaqī, with his chain of transmission, further reports that the Prophet ﷺ wiped the hand of Muḥammad ibn Ḥāṭib—after it had been burned in a fire—and it was cured on the spot; and that he ﷺ blew into the palm of Shurahbīl al-Juʿfī, whereupon a swelling that had been in his hand disappeared.

I add: It was also mentioned in the account of the Battle of Khaybar that he ﷺ spat into ʿAlī’s eyes when they were inflamed, and they were healed.

Al-Tirmidhī has transmitted from ʿAlī that the Prophet ﷺ taught him a supplication for retaining the Qur’an, and he memorised it.

Moreover, in the Ṣaḥīḥ it is related that the Prophet ﷺ said to Abū Hurayrah and a group of Companions, “Whoever spreads out his cloak today will never forget anything he hears from me.” Abū Hurayrah said, “So I spread it out, and thereafter I did not forget a single word he spoke that day.” Some have said this was a special gift enabling Abū Hurayrah to remember everything he heard from the Prophet on that day; others say it applied to what he heard on other occasions as well—and Allah knows best.