Musnad Ahmad 3553
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حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِ يُحَدِّثُ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ
إِنَّ النُّطْفَةَ تَكُونُ فِي الرَّحِمِ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا عَلَى حَالِهَا لَا تَغَيَّرُ، فَإِذَا مَضَتِ الْأَرْبَعُونَ صَارَتْ عَلَقَةً، ثُمَّ مُضْغَةً كَذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ عِظَامًا كَذَلِكَ، فَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ أَنْ يُسَوِّيَ خَلْقَهُ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهَا مَلَكًا فَيَقُولُ الْمَلَكُ الَّذِي يَلِيهِ: أَيْ رَبِّ أَذَكَرٌ أَمْ أُنْثَى؟ أَشَقِيٌّ أَمْ سَعِيدٌ؟ أَقَصِيرٌ أَمْ طَوِيلٌ؟ أَنَاقِصٌ أَمْ زَائِدٌ قُوتُهُ وَأَجَلُهُ؟ أَصَحِيحٌ أَمْ سَقِيمٌ؟ قَالَ: فَيَكْتُبُ ذَلِكَ كُلَّهُ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ: فَفِيمَ الْعَمَلُ إِذًا، وَقَدْ فُرِغَ مِنْ هَذَا كُلِّهِ؟ قَالَ: اعْمَلُوا فَكُلٌّ سَيُوَجَّهُ لِمَا خُلِقَ لَهُ.
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Chain of narrators
- Hushaym
- ʿAlī b. Zayd
- Abū ʿUbaydah b. ʿAbdullāh Yuḥaddith
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The drop of semen remains in the womb for forty days in its state, not changing. When the forty pass, it becomes a clot, then a lump of flesh like that, then bones like that. When Allah wants to perfect his creation, He sends an angel to it. The angel who is next to it says: O Lord, male or female? Wretched or blessed? Short or tall? Deficient or excessive in his sustenance and lifespan? Healthy or sick? He said: So he writes all of that. A man among the people said: Then what is the point of action, since all of this is already finished? He said: Act, for everyone will be directed to what he was created for.
Grades by grader
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Weak Chain | hadithunlocked |
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
أبو عبيدة لم يسمع من أبيه وعلي بن زيد سيئ الحفظ
machine translationAbū ʿUbaydah did not hear from his father, and ʿAlī b. Zayd is poor in memorization (sayyiʾ al-ḥifẓ).
in مسند أحمد, p. 3604 - Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
في سنده ضعف وانقطاع
machine translationThere is weakness (ḍaʿf) and a break in its chain (inqiṭāʿ).
in مسند أحمد, p. 3604
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 81 AH, also said: 82 AH, and al-Dhahabī was certain of itأَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللهِثقةسمعت
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 127 AH, or 129 AH, or 131 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍضعيفأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), who often practiced tadlīs and hidden irsāl.d. 181 AH, or 183 AHهُشَيْمٌثقة ثبت كثير التدليس والإرسال الخفيحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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