Narrated IsraiI: `Uthman bin `Abdullah bin Mauhab said, "My people sent me with a bowl of water to Um Salama." Isra'il approximated three fingers ('indicating the small size of the container in which there was some hair of the Prophet. `Uthman added, "If any person suffered from evil eye or some other disease, he would send a vessel (containing water) to Um Salama. I looked into the container (that held the hair of the Prophet) and saw a few red hairs in it,"

Sahih al-Bukhari 5896

Chapter 66: What is said about grey hair, Book 77: Dress

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وَعَن عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَوْهَبٍ قَالَ: أَرْسَلَنِي أَهْلِي إِلَى أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ بِقَدَحٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ وَكَانَ إِذَا أَصَابَ الْإِنْسَانَ عَيْنٌ أَوْ شَيْءٌ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهَا مِخْضَبَهُ فَأَخْرَجَتْ مِنْ شَعْرُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَكَانَتْ تُمْسِكُهُ فِي جُلْجُلٍ مِنْ فِضَّةٍ فَخَضْخَضَتْهُ لَهُ فَشَرِبَ مِنْهُ قَالَ: فَاطَّلَعْتُ فِي الْجُلْجُلِ فَرَأَيْت شَعرَات حَمْرَاء. رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ

‘Uthman b. ‘Abdallah b. Mauhib said: My people sent me to Umm Salama with a bowl of water. Whenever anyone was smitten by the evil eye or anything else he sent her a basin, and she took out some hairs of God’s messenger which she kept in a little silver bell.* She moved it about for him in the water and he drank some of it. I looked into the little bell and saw some red hairs.

Bukhari transmitted it.

* Mirqat, iv, 515, says that although the word means a bell, it may here be used of a small box in the shape of a bell. This is the kind of bell that would be used on a tambourine.

Mishkat al-Masabih 4568

Chapter 1c: Section 3, Book 23: Medicine and Spells

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TABARRUK WITH THE PROPHET HAIR AND NAILS

The Companions’ Seeking of Blessings With the Prophet’s Person and His Relics. There are countless hadiths on this.

1. “What is mentioned about gray hair,” that Sayyiduna 'Uthman ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Mawhab said; “My family sent me to Sayyidah Umm Salama with a cup of water. Umm Salama brought out a silver bottle which contained one of the hairs of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم, and it used to be that if anyone came under the evil eye or ill health they used to send her a cup of water through which she would pass this hair (for drinking). We used to look into the silver bottle: I saw some reddish hairs.”
[al-Bukhari]

2. Sayyiduna Anas said; “When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم shaved his head (after pilgrimage), Sayyiduna Abu Talha was the first one to take of his hair.”
[al-Bukhari]

Sayyiduna Anas also said: “The Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم threw stones at al-Jamra, then sacrificed, then told the barber to shave his head right side first, then began to give the hair away to the people.”
[Muslim]

Sayyiduna Anas said; “Sayyiduna Talha was the one distributing it.”
[Muslim, at-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud]

Sayyiduna Anas said; “When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم shaved his head in Mina, he gave me the hair from the right side and he said: Anas! take it to Umm Sulaym [his mother]. When the Companions saw what the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم gave us, they began to compete to take the hair from the left side, and everyone was getting a share from that.”
[Musnad Ahmad]

3. Narrated through Safwan ibn Hubayra from the latter’s father: Thabit al-Bunani said; ''Sayyiduna Anas ibn Malik said to me (on his death-bed): “This is one of the hairs of Allah’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم, I want you to place it under my tongue.” Sayyiduna Thabit continued; 'I placed it under his tongue, and he was buried with it under his tongue.”
[Sahih Ibn as-Sakan]

4. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr as-Siddiq said; “I saw Sayyiduna Khalid ibn Walid asking for the Prophet’s صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم forelock and he received it. He used to put it over his eyes and then kiss it.” It is known that he then placed it in his qalansuwa (head cover around which the turban is tied) and never faced battle again except he won. al-Waqidi (Maghazi), Ibn Hajar (Isaba). Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani relates that Sayyiduna Imam Malik said; “Khalid ibn al-Walid owned Aqalansiyya which contained some of the Prophet’s صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم hair, and that is the one he wore the day of the battle of Yarmuk.

5. Sayyiduna Ibn Sirin said; “One hair of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم in my possession is more precious to me than silver and gold and everything that is on the earth and everything that is inside it.”
[al-Bukhari, al-Bayhaqi in Sunan al-Kubra, Musnad Ahmad]

6. Sayyiduna 'Uthman bin 'Abd Allah ibn Mawhab said; “My people sent me with a bowl of water to Umm Salama.” Isra’il approximated three fingers indicating the small size of the container in which there was some hair of the Prophet. `Uthman added, “If any person suffered from evil eye or some other disease, he would send a vessel (containing water) to Umm Salama (and she would dip the Prophet’s hair into it and it would be drunk). I looked into the container (that held the hair of the Prophet) and saw a few reddish hairs in it.”
[al-Bukhari, Vol.7, Book 72, #784]

7. “They used to call the silver bottle in which the hair of the Prophet was kept jiljalan and that bottle was in the home of Umm Salama.” Hafiz al-`Ayni said in `Umdat al-Qari, Volume 18, page 79: “Umm Salama had some of the hairs of the Prophet in a silver bottle. When some people got ill, they would go and obtain blessings from these hairs and they would be healed by means of their blessings. If a person were struck by the evil eye or any sickness, he would send his wife to Umm Salama with a mikhdaba or water-pail, and she would pass the hair through that water and then drink the water and he would be healed, after which they would return the hair to the jiljal.”

8. Sayyiduna Abd Allah ibn Zayd ibn 'Abd Rabbih with a sound (sahih) chain as stated by Imam Haythami in Majma` al-zawa’id 3:19 that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم clipped his nails and distributed them among the people.
[Musnad Ahmad 4:42]