Hadith 399

(The book) ‘Al Tawheed’ – From Al Qasim Bin Muhammad Al Sarraj, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Musa, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Haroun Al Rasheed, from Muhammad Bin Akram Bin Abu Iyas, from Ibn Abu Zu’bin, from Nafie, from Ibn Umar who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Do not be hitting your children upon their crying, for their crying for four months is a testimony that there is no god except Allah-azwj, and four months, the Salawaat upon the Prophet-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws, and four months is the supplication for his parents’’. [122]
(The non-Shia book) ‘Al Durr Al Mansour’ – From Ibn Abbas who said, ‘A group of Jews presented to the Prophet-saww of Allah-azwj. They asked him-saww about issues. It was among what they asked him-saww, ‘How is the water of the man from water of the woman? And how is the female from it and the male? ’
He-saww said: ‘Water of the man is white, thick, and water of the woman is yellow, thin. Whichever of the two is higher, the child and the resemblance would be to him, by the Permission of Allah-azwj the Exalted. If water of the man is higher, it would be a male by the Permission of Allah-azwj, and if water of the woman was higher, it would be a female by the Permission of Allah-azwj Exalted’’. [123]
And from Anas (well-known fabricator) who said, ‘Abdullah Bin Salam asked the Prophet-saww. He said, ‘What pulls the child to its father and to its mother? ’
He-saww said: ‘Jibraeel-as informed me-saww, when water of the man precedes water of the woman, the pull of the child it to him, and when water of the woman precedes water of the man, the pull is towards her’’. [124]
And from Ibn Abbas – Regarding Words of the Exalted: And We Created you, then We Shaped you, [7: 11]. He said, ‘They were Created in the back of Adam-as, then Fashioned in the wombs’’. [125] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses)
And in another report from him – ‘They are Created in the loins of the men, then Fashioned in the wombs of the women’’. [126] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses)
And in another report from him, he said, ‘As for His-azwj Words: We Created you, – it is Adam-as, and as for: We Shaped you, [7: 11] – it is his-as offspring’’. [127] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses)
And from Abu Saeed Al Khudry who said, ‘I heard the Prophet-saww asked about the coitus interruptus. He-saww said: ‘It is not upon you that you should be doing it. It could be from what Allah-azwj has Taken the Covenant from it. If it would be upon a rock, He-azwj would Blow the spirit into it’’. [128]
From Ibn Masoud –
‘He was asked about the coitus interruptus. He said, ‘If Allah-azwj has Taken a Covenant of a person from the loins of a man, then it is poured upon a rock. He-azwj would Extract him from that rock. If you so desire, perform coitus interruptus, and if you so desire, then do not perform coitus interruptus’’. [129] (opinion)
And from Ibn Abbas – regarding Words of the Exalted: from an extract [32: 8]. He said, ‘The extract is yellow clear water, the thin from which the child happens to be’’. [130] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses)
And from Ibn Abbas raising it, ‘The seed from which the child emerges, the limbs and the veins, all of them tremble for it. When it emerges, it falls into the womb’’. [131] (opinion)
And from Ali-asws having said: ‘When four months are completed for the seed, an Angel is Sent to it. He blows the soul in it in the triple darkness. That is His-azwj Word: then We Grow it as another creation. [23: 14] – meaning blowing of the soul’’. [132] (from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas –
‘then We Grow it as another creation. [23: 14]. He said, ‘He emerges from the belly of his mother after, so it would be from the beginning of another creation that he is transformed, then it would be from his creation that he is pointed upon the breast of its mother, and it would be from his creation that he know how he should spread his legs until he sits, until he gets up to stand upon his legs, up to he walks, up to when he weans, so he knows how to drink and eat from the food, until he reaches the puberty, until he reaches to roam in the city’’. [133] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Qatadah –
‘then We Grow it as another creation. [23: 14]. He said, ‘Some of them say, it is the growth of the hair, and some of them say it is blowing of the soul’’. [134] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Huzyefa Bin Aseyd who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘The Angel enters unto the seed after it had been settled in the womb for forty-four or forty-five nights (saying), ‘Yes, Lord-azwj! Is he wretched or fortunate? Is it a male or a female? ’ Allah-azwj Says, and they write. Then they write his deeds, and his sustenance, and his term, and his impacts, and his calamities. Then they fold the parchment, so there is neither any increase in it, nor any reduction from it’’. [135] (from a non-Shia source)
And from Abu Zarr-ra having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘When the semen remains in the womb for forty nights, an Angel of the souls comes to it. He goes out with it to the Lord-azwj. He said, ‘O Lord-azwj! Is it a male or a female? ’ Allah-azwj Decrees what He-azwj Decrees. He says, ‘Is it wretched or fortunate? ’ He writes down what is appropriate’’. And Abu Zarr-ra recited from the beginning of (Surah) Al Taghabun, five Verses up to His-azwj Words: and He Imaged you, so excellent is your image, and to Him is the destination [64: 3]’’. [136] (from a non-Shia source)
And from Abdullah Bin Masoud who said, ‘Whenever we comes to you with a Hadeeth, we come to you with its ratification from the Book of Allah-azwj. The seed happens to be in the womb for forty (day), then it becomes a clot for forty (days), then it becomes a lump for forty (days). When Allah-azwj Wants to Create the creature, the Angel descends. He-azwj Says to him: “Write! ” He says, ‘What is w