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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the authenticity of the claim that there was a Jewish woman who served the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and administered magic to him?

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The questioner : Regarding ... Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of his passing, I have read in books that the illness he was suffering from ... some of the writers, I once did a study, they asked me to do a study ... I did a study ... in some books it is said that there was a Jewish slave woman who was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and she was administering poison ... so I do not know the extent of the truth of this statement?

The Shaykh : No, this version has no basis, but it has a basis in another way; and that is that a Jewish woman, who was not a servant or a slave, came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with a roasted arm of meat, and it appears that she had been informed that the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) favorite meat was the arm, so she presented him with a roasted arm and administered poison in it, so the Messenger (peace be upon him) sat down to eat with some of the Companions, and they ate, I think one or two died, and the Messenger (peace be upon him), when he took the first bite and put it in his mouth, it was revealed to him that it was poisoned, so he spat it out, and he was saved from death by that, but he complained of it for the rest of his life, and in his death sickness he said:
I do not cease to feel the effect of that poison in ... إني لا أزال أجد أثر ذلك السم في ...
(peace be upon him), this is what is established in "Sahih al-Bukhari", so other than this, no.
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