حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ أَخْبَرَنَا عَطَاءُ بْنُ السَّائِبِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ جَاءَ بِإِسْمَاعِيلَ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَام وَهَاجَرَ فَوَضَعَهُمَا بِمَكَّةَ فِي مَوْضِعِ زَمْزَمَ فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ ثُمَّ جَاءَتْ مِنْ الْمَرْوَةِ إِلَى إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَقَدْ نَبَعَتْ الْعَيْنُ فَجَعَلَتْ تَفْحَصُ الْعَيْنَ بِيَدِهَا هَكَذَا حَتَّى اجْتَمَعَ الْمَاءُ مِنْ شَقِّهِ ثُمَّ تَأْخُذُهُ بِقَدَحِهَا فَتَجْعَلُهُ فِي سِقَائِهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَرْحَمُهَا اللَّهُ لَوْ تَرَكَتْهَا لَكَانَتْ عَيْنًا سَائِحَةً تَجْرِي إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
مسند امام احمد بن حنبل · Hadith 2285
It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbas (RA) that Ibraheem brought Isma'eel and Hajar, and left them in Makkah at the site of Zamzam,... and he narrated the hadeeth. Then she came from al-Marwah to Isma'eel, and the spring had begun to flow. She started digging with her hands around the spring, to make a hole so that the water would gather in this hole, then she took her jug and scooped up some water into her waterskin. The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: "May Allah have mercy on her; if she had -left it alone it would have been a spring flowing (on the surface) until the Day of Resurrection."
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020