Sahih Muslim 2643b

Translation

" The creation of any one of you is like this that (semen) is collected in the womb of the mother for forty nights," and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba (the words are):" Forty nights and forty days." And in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Jarir and 'Isa (the words are):" Forty days."

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ، الْحَمِيدِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ، الأَشَجُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، كُلُّهُمْ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ. قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ وَكِيعٍ " إِنَّ خَلْقَ أَحَدِكُمْ يُجْمَعُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ". وَقَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ " أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا ". وَأَمَّا فِي حَدِيثِ جَرِيرٍ وَعِيسَى " أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا

  machine translationʿUthmān b. Abī Shaybah and Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm narrated to us, both from Jarīr b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd; (change of chain) and Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm narrated to us, ʿĪsā b. Yūnus informed us; (change of chain) and Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj narrated to me, Wakīʿ narrated to us; (change of chain) and ʿUbaydullāh b. Muʿādh narrated it to us, my father narrated to us, Shuʿbah b. al-Ḥajjāj narrated to us, all of them from al-Aʿmash, with this chain. He said in the hadith of Wakīʿ: "Indeed the creation of each one of you is gathered in his mother's womb for forty nights." And he said in the hadith of Muʿādh from Shuʿbah: "forty nights, forty days." And in the hadith of Jarīr and ʿĪsā: "forty days." Report a problem

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Sahih al-Bukhari 3332Sahih Muslim 2643aJami' at-Tirmidhi 2137Sahih Ibn Hibban 6174al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10469

Narrators

1. 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. 2
   Zayd b. Wahb

   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-Jamājim
   زيد بن وهب الجهنيمخضرم ثقة جليل ، لم يصب من قال في حديثه خلل
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   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 AH
   الأعمشثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   ʿĪsā b. Yūnus

   trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AH
   عيسى بن يونس بن أبي إسحاقثقة مأمون
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm

   trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
   إسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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