Sunan Ibn Majah 2351

Translation

the Prophet ﷺ gave a child the choice between his father and his mother (i.e., which parent to live with). He said: “O boy, this is your mother and this is your father.”

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 2244Sunan an-Nasa'i 3495al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15862Musnad al-Bazzar 9452Musnad Abi Ya'la 6135

Narrators

1. 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. 2
   Abū Maymūnah

   trustworthy (thiqah)
   أَبِي مَيْمُونَةَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Hilāl b. ʿAlī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110-odd AH, or: at the end of the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   هِلَالِ بْنِ أَبِي مَيْمُونَةَثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Ziyād b. Saʿd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 AH and 150 AH
   زِيَادِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Hishām b. ʿAmmār

   Truthful (ṣadūq), a Quran reciter (muqriʾ); in old age he began to accept prompting (talqīn), so his earlier hadith are sounderd. 244 AH, or: 245 AH, or: 246 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍصدوق مقرئ ، كبر فصار يتلقن فحديثه القديم أصح
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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