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Sahih al-Bukhari 6001

Killing of children for the fear that they will share meals (in the book an 's' is added to shares I have omitted that 's')

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الذَّنْبِ أَعْظَمُ قَالَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ لِلَّهِ نِدًّا وَهْوَ خَلَقَكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَىُّ قَالَ أَنْ تَقْتُلَ وَلَدَكَ خَشْيَةَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مَعَكَ قَالَ ثُمَّ أَىُّ قَالَ أَنْ تُزَانِيَ حَلِيلَةَ جَارِكَ وَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَصْدِيقَ قَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ {وَالَّذِينَ لاَ يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ}

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Kathīr
  2. Sufyān
  3. Manṣūr
  4. Abū Wāʾil
  5. ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl
  6. ʿAbdullāh

I said 'O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! Which sin is the greatest?" He said, "To set up a rival unto Allah, though He Alone created you." I said, "What next?" He said, "To kill your son lest he should share your food with you." I further asked, "What next?" He said, "To commit illegal sexual intercourse with the wife of your neighbor." And then Allah revealed as proof of the statement of the Prophet: 'Those who invoke not with Allah any other god)................. (to end of verse)...' (25.68)

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 4014Sahih Ibn Hibban 4414Sahih Ibn Hibban 4416al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11333al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3464

Narrators

  1. ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd
    One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
    عن
  2. ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl al-Hamdānī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. 63 AH, or: 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 63 AH
    عَمْرِو بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَثقة عابد مخضرم
    عن
  3. Shaqīq b. Salamah
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
    أَبِي وَائِلٍثقة
    عن
  4. Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir
    Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
    مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
    عن
  5. Sufyān al-Thawrī
    trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
    سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    أخبرنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Kathīr
    Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفه
    حدثنا
  7. 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

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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