he would sing, saying:

“Would that I knew whether I shall spend a night in a valley, with idhkhir and jalil growing around me; whether I shall one day come to the waters of Majannah; and whether Shamah and Tufayl will appear before me.”

Aishah said: I then came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and informed him. He then made the supplication cited above. In one narration, Ahmad added: “A child would be born in al-Juhfah, but fever would strike him down before he reached puberty.” The wording is Ahmad’s, and its chain is authentic according to the criteria of the six canonical hadith collections. Ahmad also has another chain from Aishah (6/239–240), and its chain is good.

Note: Al-Juhfah—pronounced with a u-vowel after its initial j—is a sizeable village situated eighty-two miles from Mecca. It was formerly called Mahya'ah, as stated in al-Qamus. Its inhabitants at that time were Jews, and there were no Muslims there. This is why the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, supplicated that the fever of Medina be transferred there, as Ibn Hibban stated. Al-Nawawi says something similar in his Commentary on Sahih Muslim.

2585 — “O Allah, forgive Hudhayfah and his mother.”

Ibn Abi al-Dunya narrated it in his Book of Night Prayer (2/60): Abu Abd al-Rahman Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Adhra'i narrated to us; Zayd ibn al-Hubab narrated to us; Isra'il informed us, from Maysarah ibn Habib, from al-Minhal ibn Amr, from Zirr ibn Hubaysh, from Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, who said: “I came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and prayed the Maghrib prayer with him. When he had finished, he continued praying until he performed the Isha prayer, and then he departed. I followed him. He said, ‘Who is this?’ I replied, ‘Hudhayfah.’ He then made the supplication cited above.”