Aḥmad said: “Yazīd narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Farqad al-Sabkhī, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās: A woman brought her son to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, he is afflicted with lamam (sporadic demonic seizures), and whenever it strikes him at mealtime he ruins our food.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed his hand over the boy’s chest and prayed for him. The child retched violently, and something came out of him resembling a little black puppy. Thereupon he was cured. (1)

This chain is gharīb (singular) through this route, and there is some criticism of Farqad—despite his being one of the ascetics of Baṣrah. Yet the earlier report provides supporting evidence, even if both narrations relate to the same incident. Allah knows best.

Al-Bazzār also transmitted, through Farqad, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in Mecca when a woman of the Anṣār came to him and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, this khabīth (vile spirit) has overpowered me.’ He replied, ‘Would you rather endure what you are facing and come on the Day of Resurrection free of sin and free of reckoning?’ She said, ‘By Him who sent you with the truth, I shall indeed be patient until I meet Allah.’ She then added, ‘But I fear the evil spirit may strip me of my clothes.’ So he supplicated for her. Whenever she sensed its approach, she would go to the curtains of the Kaʿbah, cling to them, and say to it, ‘Ikhsaʾ—be gone!’ and it would leave her. (2)

This shows that Farqad transmitted the report accurately, for it is corroborated in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Muslim. ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ related: Ibn ʿAbbās said to me, ‘Shall I show you a woman of Paradise?’ I said, ‘Indeed.’ He said, ‘This black woman. She came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, “I suffer epileptic fits and become exposed; pray to Allah for me.” He replied, “If you wish, endure and you will have Paradise, or if you wish, I will pray that Allah grant you healing.” She said, “No, I choose patience—but pray that I not become uncovered.” He prayed for her, and she was no longer exposed.’ (3)

Al-Bukhārī then said: “Muḥammad narrated to us; Mukhallad narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: ʿAṭāʾ informed me that he saw Umm Zafar—a tall, dark-skinned woman—holding on to the curtain of the Kaʿbah.” (4)

The ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Athīr states in Usd al-Ghābah, in the entry on the Companions, that this Umm Zafar was the hairdresser of Khadījah bint Khuwaylid and that she lived so long that ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ saw her. (5)

As for Jesus healing the aʿmah—the one born blind; it is also said that he is someone who cannot see by day but can see by night—