Sahih al-Bukhari 318
"(A little lump of flesh) some formed and some unformed."
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حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ ﷻ وَكَّلَ بِالرَّحِمِ مَلَكًا يَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ نُطْفَةٌ يَا رَبِّ عَلَقَةٌ يَا رَبِّ مُضْغَةٌ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَقْضِيَ خَلْقَهُ قَالَ أَذَكَرٌ أَمْ أُنْثَى شَقِيٌّ أَمْ سَعِيدٌ فَمَا الرِّزْقُ وَالأَجَلُ فَيُكْتَبُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Ḥammād
- ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Bakr
- Anas b. Mālik
The Prophet ﷺ said, "At every womb Allah appoints an angel who says, 'O Lord! A drop of semen, O Lord! A clot. O Lord! A little lump of flesh." Then if Allah wishes (to complete) its creation, the angel asks, (O Lord!) Will it be a male or female, a wretched or a blessed, and how much will his provision be? And what will his age be?' So all that is written while the child is still in the mother's womb."
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3332Sahih Muslim 2643aSahih Muslim 2643bJami' at-Tirmidhi 2137Sahih Ibn Hibban 6174
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 AH and 140 AHعُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AHحَمَّادٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
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Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Rajab)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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