It is further authenticated in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, through the isnād of Shuʿbah, from Abū Ḥamzah,(1) from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

“I was playing with the other boys when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came along, so I hid from him. He came over, gave me a light tap—one or two taps,(2) and sent me to Muʿāwiyah on an errand. I went to him and found him eating, so I returned and said, ‘I went to him and he was eating.’ The Prophet sent me a second time; I went and again found him eating, so I returned and said, ‘I went to him and he was eating.’ The Prophet then said, ‘May Allah never fill his belly.’(3)”

Al-Bayhaqī also narrated—from al-Ḥākim, from ʿAlī ibn Ḥammād, from Hishām ibn ʿAlī, from Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl—who said: Abū ʿAwnah related to us, from Abū Ḥamzah: I heard Ibn ʿAbbās say:

“I used to play with the boys, and whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ appeared I thought, ‘He has come only for me,’ so I would run and hide behind a doorway. He came, gave me a light slap, and said, ‘Go and call Muʿāwiyah for me’—for he used to write the revelation. I went and called him, but they said, ‘He is eating.’ I returned to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, ‘He is eating.’ He said, ‘Go and call him for me.’ I went a second time and again they said, ‘He is eating.’ I returned and informed the Messenger of Allah, and on the third occasion he said, ‘May Allah never fill his belly.’ He (Ibn ʿAbbās) added: After that, Muʿāwiyah was never satisfied with food.(4)”

I (the author) say: Muʿāwiyah—may Allah be pleased with him—indeed never felt full after that, and this supplication overtook him during his rule. It is said that he would eat meat seven times a day and would remark, “By Allah, I do not feel satiated; I only grow weary.”

We have already mentioned under the campaign of Tabūk(5) that a young boy once passed in front of them while they were praying; the Prophet invoked a curse upon him, whereupon he was immobilised and never stood again.

Al-Bayhaqī also transmits through several chains(6) that a man once imitated the Prophet ﷺ in his manner of speaking and contorted(7) his face. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Remain like that,” and the man continued to twitch and tremble for the rest of his life until he died.

In some versions of the report,(8) this individual is identified as al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ, the father of Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam—and Allah knows best.

Mālik narrated—through Zayd ibn Aslam, from Jābir ibn ʿAbdullāh—who said: “We set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the expedition of Banū …”