Sahih al-Bukhari 3208
The reference to angels
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حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الأَحْوَصِ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَهْوَ الصَّادِقُ الْمَصْدُوقُ، قَالَ:
«إِنَّ أَحَدَكُمْ يُجْمَعُ خَلْقُهُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا، ثُمَّ يَكُونُ عَلَقَةً مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ يَكُونُ مُضْغَةً مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ مَلَكًا فَيُؤْمَرُ بِأَرْبَعِ كَلِمَاتٍ، وَيُقَالُ لَهُ: اكْتُبْ عَمَلَهُ، وَرِزْقَهُ، وَأَجَلَهُ، وَشَقِيٌّ أَوْ سَعِيدٌ، ثُمَّ يُنْفَخُ فِيهِ الرُّوحُ». «فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ مِنْكُمْ لَيَعْمَلُ حَتَّى مَا يَكُونُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْجَنَّةِ إِلَّا ذِرَاعٌ، فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ كِتَابُهُ، فَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ، وَيَعْمَلُ حَتَّى مَا يَكُونُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ النَّارِ إِلَّا ذِرَاعٌ، فَيَسْبِقُ عَلَيْهِ الْكِتَابُ، فَيَعْمَلُ بِعَمَلِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ».
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. al-Rabīʿ
- Abū al-Aḥwaṣ
- al-Aʿmash
- Zayd b. and Hb
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ Wahw al-Ṣādiq al-Maṣdūq
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who is truthful and confirmed in truth, told us: “Indeed, each one of you is brought together in his mother’s womb for forty days; then he becomes a clinging clot for a similar period; then he becomes a morsel of flesh for a similar period. Then Allah sends an angel and he is commanded with four matters, and it is said to him: Write his deeds, his provision, his lifespan, and whether he will be wretched or blessed. Then the soul is breathed into him.” “Indeed, one of you may act until there is only an arm’s length between him and Paradise, then what has been written overtakes him, so he acts with the deeds of the people of the Fire. And one of you may act until there is only an arm’s length between him and the Fire, then what has been written overtakes him, so he acts with the deeds of the people of Paradise.”
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3332Sahih Muslim 2643aSahih Muslim 2643bJami' at-Tirmidhi 2137Sahih Ibn Hibban 6174
Narrators
- 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 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةقال
- A mukhaḍram (lived through both the Jāhiliyyah and Islam), trustworthy (thiqah) and eminent; the one who alleged a flaw in his hadith was not correctd. 96 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: he died during al-Ḥajjāj's governorship, after al-Jamājimزَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍمخضرم ثقة جليل ، لم يصب من قال في حديثه خللعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), a hadith specialist (ṣāḥib ḥadīth)d. 179 AHأَبُو الْأَحْوَصِثقة , متقن , صاحب حديثحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 220 AH, or 221 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِثقةحدثنا
- 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
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Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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