Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2138

Translation

"Every child is born upon the Millah, then his parents make him a Jew, a Christian, or an idolater." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah! What about those who die before that?" He said: "Allah knows best what they would have done." [Another chain) with similar in meaning, and he said: "Born upon the Fiirah."

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ وَالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ نَحْوَهُ بِمَعْنَاهُ وَقَالَ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ شُعْبَةُ وَغَيْرُهُ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِمَعْنَاهُ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ بْنِ سَرِيعٍ

  machine translationAbū Kurayb and al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth narrated to us, they said: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, something similar to it in meaning, and he said: "He is born upon the natural disposition (fiṭrah)." Abū ʿĪsā said: This is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Shuʿbah and others also narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, with the same meaning. And on this topic there is a narration from al-Aswad b. Sarīʿ. Report a problem

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ. وَقَدْ رَوَاهُ شُعْبَةُ وَغَيْرُهُ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمَعْنَاهُ. وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنِ الأَسْوَدِ بْنِ سَرِيعٍ.

  machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith. Shuʿbah and others also narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, with the same meaning. And on this topic there is a narration from al-Aswad b. Sarīʿ. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2302
• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  طرقه عن أبي هريرة صحاح ثابتة

  machine translationHis routes from Abū Hurayrah are sound (ṣaḥīḥ) and well established. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 2302

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1358Sahih al-Bukhari 1385Sahih al-Bukhari 4775Sahih Muslim 2658bMusnad Ahmad 7712Sahih Ibn Hibban 133

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   أَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبت
   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
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Rabīʿah al-Bunānī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ الْبُنَانِيُّمقبول
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-Quṭaʿī

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 253 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْقُطَعِيُّ الْبَصْرِيُّصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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