Sahih al-Bukhari 3333

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said, "Allah has appointed an angel in the womb, and the angel says, 'O Lord! A drop of discharge (i.e. of semen), O Lord! a clot, O Lord! a piece of flesh.' And then, if Allah wishes to complete the child's creation, the angel will say. 'O Lord! A male or a female? O Lord! wretched or blessed (in religion)? What will his livelihood be? What will his age be?' The angel writes all this while the child is in the womb of its mother."

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3332Sahih Muslim 2643aSahih Muslim 2643bJami' at-Tirmidhi 2137Sahih Ibn Hibban 6174

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Bakr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 AH and 140 AH
   عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَنَسٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥammād b. Zayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AH
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū al-Nuʿmān

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt); his memory changed at the end of his life (taghayyara fī ākhir ʿumrihi)d. 224, also said: 223
   أَبُو النُّعْمَانِثقة ثبت ، تغير في آخر عمره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Bukhārī

   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 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.