al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1720
✧ Ahmad b. Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i
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وَبِهِ: عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ قَالَ: نَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ وَهُوَ الصَّادِقُ الْمَصْدُوقُ:
إِنَّ خَلْقَ أَحَدِكُمْ يُجْمَعُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً، ثُمَّ يَكُونُ عَلَقَةً مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ يَكُونُ مُضْغَةً مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ، ثُمَّ يَأْتِيهِ الْمَلَكُ، فَيَقُولُ: رَبِّ أَذَكَرٌ أَمْ أُنْثَى ؟ أَشَقِيٌّ أَمْ سَعِيدٌ ؟ وَمَا الرِّزْقُ ؟ وَمَا الْأَجَلُ ؟ فَيَقْضِي رَبُّكَ، وَيَكْتُبُ الْمَلَكُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Aʿmash
- Zayd b. and Hb
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ Wahū al-Ṣādiq al-Maṣdūq
✧ The creation of one of you is gathered in his mother's belly for forty nights, then he becomes a clinging clot for the like of that, then he becomes a lump of flesh for the like of that. Then the angel comes to him and says: 'My Lord, male or female? Wretched or blessed? What is the provision? What is the lifespan?' So your Lord decrees and the angel writes.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3332Sahih Muslim 2643aSahih Muslim 2643bJami' at-Tirmidhi 2137
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 جمةحدثنا
- 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), a jurist, an asceticd. 160 AH, or 162 AH, also said: 165 AHداود بن نصير الطائيثقة فقيه زاهدنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 203 AHمصعب بن المقدام الخثعميصدوق له أوهامنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 245 AHمحمد بن رافع القشيريثقة عابدأنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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