Sahih al-Bukhari 3286
The characteristics of Iblis (Satan) and his soldiers
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ
كُلُّ بَنِي آدَمَ يَطْعُنُ الشَّيْطَانُ فِي جَنْبَيْهِ بِإِصْبَعِهِ حِينَ يُولَدُ غَيْرَ عِيسَى بْنِ مَرْيَمَ ذَهَبَ يَطْعُنُ فَطَعَنَ فِي الْحِجَابِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-Yamān
- Shuʿayb
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "When any human being is born. Satan touches him at both sides of the body with his two fingers, except Jesus, the son of Mary, whom Satan tried to touch but failed, for he touched the placenta-cover instead."
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 5723وَعَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «كُلُّ بَنِي آدَمَ يَطْعَنُ الشَّيْطَانُ فِي جَنْبَيْهِ بِإِصْبَعَيْهِ حِينَ يُوَلَدُ غَيْرَ عِيسَى بْنِ مَرْيَمَ ذَهَبَ يَطْعَنُ فَطَعَنَ فِي الْحِجَابِ». مُتَّفَقٌ ع
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3431Sahih Muslim 2659aMusnad Ahmad 10773Musnad Ahmad 7708al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6790Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32148
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 الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 162 AH, or 163 AHشُعَيْبٌثقة عابدأخبرنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 221 AH, or 222 AHأَبُو الْيَمَانِثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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