Sahih al-Bukhari 5998
To be merciful to children and embrace them
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ
جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: تُقَبِّلُونَ الصِّبْيَانَ، فَمَا نُقَبِّلُهُمْ؟ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: «أَوَ أَمْلِكُ لَكَ أَنْ نَزَعَ اللَّهُ مِنْ قَلْبِكَ الرَّحْمَةَ؟»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Yūsuf
- Sufyān
- Hishām
- ʿUrwah
- ʿĀʾishah
A Bedouin came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “Do you kiss children? We do not kiss them.” The Prophet ﷺ said: “Can I control it for you if Allah has removed mercy from your heart?”
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Riyadhus Shalihin 226قدم ناس من الأعراب على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، فقالوا: أتقبلون صبيانكم؟ فقال: "نعم" قالوا: لكنا والله ما نقبل ! فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: "أو أملك إن كان الله نزع من قلوبكم الرحمة؟"
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2317Sunan Ibn Majah 3665Musnad Ahmad 24291Musnad Ahmad 24408Sahih Ibn Hibban 5595al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13709
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHعُرْوَةَثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامٍثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- 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 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, it is said: he erred in some of the hadith of Sufyān, despite that, he is given precedence in it by them over ʿAbd al-Razzāqd. 212 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَثقة فاضل ، يقال : أخطأ في شيء من حديث سفيان ، وهو مقدم فيه مع ذلك عندهم على عبد الرزاقحدثنا
- 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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