al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12266
✧ The child follows its parents in disbelief; if one of them becomes Muslim, the child follows in Islam
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أَخْبَرَنَاهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الدَّارَبُرْدِيُّ بِمَرْوَ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْمُوَجِّهِ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ، أَنْبَأَ عَبْدُ اللهِ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:
" مَا مِنْ مَوْلُودٍ إِلَّا يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ، أَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ Anbaʾ Abū Bakr b. Abū Naṣr al-Dāraburdī Bimarw
- Abū al-Muwajjih
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān Anbaʾ ʿAbdullāh
- Yūnus
- al-Zuhrī
- Abū Salamah b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
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"There is no child but that he is born upon the natural disposition (fiṭrah); it is his parents who make him a Jew
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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.
in سنن البيهقي الكبرى, p. 12266
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 1358Sahih al-Bukhari 1385Sahih al-Bukhari 4775Sahih Muslim 2658b
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةأن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقة ، مكثرأخبرني
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that in his narration from al-Zuhrī there are slight errors (awhām), and in his narration from others there is error (khaṭaʾ)d. Ibn Saʿd said: 152 AH, al-Bukhārī and others: 159 AH (and it is the correct view), Muḥammad b. ʿAzīz said: 160 AHيُونُسَثقة ، إلا أن في روايته عن الزهري وهما قليلا ، وفي غير الزهري خطأعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh) and scholar, generous and a fighter in the way of God, in whom the qualities of goodness were gathered.d. 181 AH, or 182 AHعَبْدُ اللهِثقة ثبت ، فقيه عالم ، جواد مجاهد ، جمعت فيه خصال الخيرأنبأ
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH, also said: 222 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُثْمَانَثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 282 AHأَبُو الْمُوَجِّهِحدثنا
- أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الدَّارَبُرْدِيُّأنبأ
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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