1 of 2 · 1 AH · soon after the Hijrah · Quba, Madinah
'Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr رضي الله عنه
The First Child After the Hijrah
Asma' bint Abi Bakr had set out for Madinah while she was pregnant, and she gave birth at Quba. She brought the baby to the Prophet ﷺ and placed him in his lap. The Prophet ﷺ asked for a date, chewed it, and placed some of it in the infant's mouth. The first thing to reach 'Abdullah's stomach was the saliva of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Then he blessed him and prayed for him.
The Muslims shouted "Allahu akbar" in joy. The migrants had been in Madinah for months without a newborn among them, and a rumour was going around that the Jews had cast a spell so that no child would be born to them. 'Abdullah's birth ended that talk. He was the first child born to the Muhajirun in Islam in Madinah.
His mother raised him in the house of Abu Bakr's family, and his aunt 'A'ishah would later love him as a son. She was called Umm 'Abd Allah because of him, and he became known as the closest of the young generation to her.
The first drop of a child's life can be a blessing from the Prophet's ﷺ own hand; a family's joy is part of the story of the faith.
What do you hope the first things a child hears and tastes in your home will be?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 3909 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sahih Muslim 2146 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sunan Abi Dawud 4970Graded by Al-Albani: Sahih · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih · Shuaib Al Arnaut: Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad SahihSahih
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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