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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 12268

✧ The child follows its parents in disbelief; if one of them becomes Muslim, the child follows in Islam

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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو، قَالَا: ثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، ثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ، ثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ - ﷺ:

" لَيْسَ مِنْ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ إِلَّا عَلَى هَذِهِ الْمِلَّةِ، حَتَّى يُبِينَ عَنْهُ لِسَانُهُ، فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ، أَوْ يُنَصِّرَانِهِ، أَوْ يُشَرِّكَانِهِ، أَوْ يُمَجِّسَانِهِ "، قَالَ: فَقَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَكَيْفَ بِمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ - يَعْنِي: مَاتَ - ؟ قَالَ: " اللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا كَانُوا عَامِلِينَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ and ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr
  2. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
  3. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār
  4. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  5. al-Aʿmash
  6. Abū Ṣāliḥ
  7. Abū Hurayrah
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Machine translation, not reviewed

"There is no child born but he is born upon this religion, until his tongue speaks for him. Then his parents make him a Jew, or a Christian, or a polytheist, or a Magian." He said: They said: "O Messenger of Allah, what about the one who was before that – meaning: who died?" He said: "Allah knows best what they would have done."

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

Narrators

  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. Dhakwān al-Sammān
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. al-Aʿmash
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  4. Abū Muʿāwiyah
    Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
    أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
    حدثنا
  5. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār
    Weak (ḍaʿīf), though his hearing of the biography (sīrah) is sound (ṣaḥīḥ)d. 270 AH or 271 AH or 272 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِضعيف ، وسماعه للسيرة صحيح
    حدثنا
  6. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
    d. 346 AH
    أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ
    حدثنا
  7. al-Ḥākim
    d. 403 AH, or 405 AH
    أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ
    أخبرنا
  8. al-Bayhaqī
    d. 458 AH
    البيهقي

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