Musnad Ahmad 7795

Translation

✧ "Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ said: Every newborn is born upon the natural disposition (fitrah), then his parents make him a Jew or a Christian, just as an animal gives birth to a perfect offspring. Have you noticed any defect in its ears?"

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  طرقه عن أبي هريرة صحاح ثابتة

  machine translationHis routes from Abū Hurayrah are sound (ṣaḥīḥ) and well established. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 7869

Other narrations of this report

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

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 100 AH, or: 101 AH, or: 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, or: 106 AH, or after: 110 AH
   طَاوُسٍثقة فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Dīnār al-Athram

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
   عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   ʿUmar b. Ḥabīb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. between 151 and 160 AH
   عُمَرَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍثقة حافظ
   عن
5. 5
   Rabāḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 187 AH
   رَبَاحٌثقة فاضل
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibrāhīm b. Khālid

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 200 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ خَالِدٍثقة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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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