al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3387
✧ Love of One's Child
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قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى، عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ ؓ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ:
الْوَلَدُ ثَمَرَةُ الْقَلْبِ، مَجْبَنَةٌ مَبْخَلَةٌ مَحْزَنَةٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- ʿĪsá b. al-Mukhtār
- Ibn Abū Laylá
- ʿAṭiyyah
- Abū Saʿīd
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ A child is the fruit of the heart, a source of cowardice, miserliness, and sorrow.
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
رواه أبو يعلى والبزار وفيه عطية العوفي وهو ضعيف
in المطالب العالية, p. 3387
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17562Musnad Ahmad 27314al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 20922al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4771
Narrators
- He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AHأَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes many mistakes, he was a Shīʿī who practised concealment (mudallis)d. 111 AH, Ibn Ḥajar said in "Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb": also said: the year (127 AH), mentioned by Ibn Qāniʿ, and al-Qarrābعَطِيَّةَصدوق يخطئ كثيرا ، وكان شيعيا مدلساعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), of very poor memoryd. 148 AHابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَىصدوق ، سيئ الحفظ جداعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)عِيسَى بْنُ الْمُخْتَارِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 211 AH, or: 212 AH, also said: 219 AHبَكْرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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