al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12267
✧ The child follows its parents in disbelief; if one of them becomes Muslim, the child follows in Islam
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( وَأَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْقَطَّانُ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، أَنْبَأَ مَعْمَرٌ، عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍ، قَالَ: هَذَا مَا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:
" مَنْ يُولَدُ يُولَدُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْفِطْرَةِ، فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ وَيُنَصِّرَانِهِ، كَمَا تُنْتَجُ الْبَهِيمَةُ، فَهَلْ تَجِدُونَ فِيهَا مِنْ جَدْعَاءَ، حَتَّى تَكُونُوا أَنْتُمْ تَجْدَعُونَهَا ". قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، أَفَرَأَيْتَ مَنْ يَمُوتُ وَهُوَ صَغِيرٌ ؟ قَالَ: " اللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا كَانُوا عَامِلِينَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh Anbaʾ Abū Bakr al-Qaṭṭān
- Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Sulamī
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq Anbaʾ Maʿmar
- Hammām b. Munabbih
- Hadhā Mā
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Everyone who is born is born upon this natural disposition (fiṭrah), and then his parents make him a Jew or a Christian, just as an animal gives birth: do you find among them any with a cut-off ear, until you yourselves cut it off?" They said: "O Messenger of Allah, what about the one who dies while young?" He said: "Allah knows best what they would have been doing."
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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. 12267
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 الصحابةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AH, or: 132 AHهَمَّامِ بْنِ مُنَبِّهٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةأنبأ
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- a reliable memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy (thiqah)d. 263 AH, or 264 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ السُّلَمِيُّحافظ ثقةحدثنا
- أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْقَطَّانُأنبأ
- d. 410 AHأَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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