Musnad Ahmad 14805

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Every newborn is born upon Fitrah (natural inclination towards goodness), until their tongue expresses it. Once their tongue expresses it, they will either be grateful or ungrateful."

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  فيه خلاف وبقية رجاله ثقات

  in مسند أحمد, p. 14961

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1358Sahih al-Bukhari 1385Sahih al-Bukhari 4775Sahih Muslim 2658b

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   al-Rabīʿ b. Anas

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 139 AH or 140 AH, also said: before it
   الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَنَسٍصدوق له أوهام
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī

   Truthful (ṣadūq), but of poor memory (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ), especially in his narrations from Mughīrah.d. around 160 AH
   أَبُو جَعْفَرٍصدوق . سيئ الحفظ خصوصا عن مغيرة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū al-Naḍr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 205 AH, or: 207 AH
   هَاشِمٌثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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