Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1532
وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: كَانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا اشْتَكَى نَفَثَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ بِالْمُعَوِّذَاتِ وَمَسَحَ عَنْهُ بِيَدِهِ فَلَمَّا اشْتَكَى وَجَعَهُ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ كُنْتُ أَنْفِثُ عَلَيْهِ بِالْمُعَوِّذَاتِ الَّتِي كَانَ يَنْفِثُ وَأَمْسَحُ بِيَدِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ لِمُسْلِمٍ قَالَتْ: كَانَ إِذَا مَرِضَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ نَفَثَ عَلَيْهِ بِالْمُعَوِّذَاتِ
Aisha, may God be pleased with her, said: When the Prophet was ill, he would blow over himself with the protective surahs and wipe himself with his hand. When he suffered from the illness in which he died, I would blow over him with the protective surahs that he used to recite, and wipe him with the hand of the Prophet.
In a version from Muslim, Aisha said: When anyone in his household was ill, he would blow over that person with the protective surahs.
Translation notes
The source calls these recitations al-Muawwidhat, the protective surahs; it does not spell out their names here.
وَأَمْسَحُ بِيَدِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
The Arabic says that Aisha wiped him with the Prophet hand; the English witness interprets this as taking his hand to wipe him.
Does the Arabic wording indicate that she used his hand to wipe him, or that she wiped him with her own hand while he was holding hers?