Hadith 399

hat I should write? ’ He-azwj Says either wretched or fortunate, or male or female, and what it’s sustenance is, and its impacts, and its term. Allah-azwj Reveals with whatever He-azwj so Desires and the Angels writes’. Then Abdullah recited: Surely, We Created the human being from a uniting seed. We Wanted to Try him, [76: 2]. Then Abdullah said, ‘It’s uniting is its veins’’. [137] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas – from a uniting seed. [76: 2]. He-asws said: ‘Water of the man and water of the woman when they mingle’’. [138] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas that Nafie Bin Al Azraq said to him, ‘Inform me about His-azwj Words: ‘from a uniting seed. [76: 2]. He said, ‘Mingling of water of the man and water of the woman, when it occurs in the womb’. He said, ‘And the Arabs know that? ’ He said, ‘Yes. Have you nor heard Abu Zuweyb (the poet) and he has said, ‘As if the feathers and the two aboves, from it is majestic lineage, it’s mixing is ‘Masheej’’. [139] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas – regarding His-azwj Words: from a uniting seed. [76: 2]. He said, ‘Different colours’’. [140] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Mujahid – from a uniting seed. [76: 2]. He said, ‘Colour of seed of the man is white and red, and seed of the woman is green and red’’. [141] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Qatadah –
Surely, We Created the human being from a uniting seed. We Wanted to Try him, [76: 2]. He said, ‘A phase of being a seed, and a phase of being a clot, and a phase of being a lump, and a phase of being bones. then We Clothed the bones with flesh, then We Grow it as another creation. So Blessed is Allah, the best of the Creators [23: 14] hen We Clothed the bones with flesh, [23: 14] – and that is most difficult as can be, when the it is clothed the flesh. then We Grow it as another creation. – He said, ‘The hair grows for it – So Blessed is Allah, the best of the Creators [23: 14] – Allah-azwj Informed him what He-azwj had Created him from, and Informed him, rather Revealed that in order to Try him with that to Know how his thanking would be, and his recognition of His-azwj Right. He-azwj Revealed to him what He-azwj had Permitted for him and what is Prohibited upon him, then said: We certainly Guided him of the Way. Either he is grateful, – for the bounties of Allah-azwj – or he commits Kufr [76: 3] – with these’’. [142] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ikrimah (Bin Abu Jahl-la) – Regarding His-azwj Word: from a uniting seed. [76: 2]. He said, ‘The nails and the bones, and the nerves are from the man, and the flesh and the blood and the hair is from the woman’’. [143] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Malik Bin Al Huweyris who said, ‘When Allah-azwj Wants to Create the person, the man copulates with the woman, his water flies into every vein and nerve of hers. When it were the seventh day, Allah-azwj Presents to him every vein between him and Adam-as’. Then he recited: Into whichever image what He so Desires, He Constitutes you [82: 8]’’. [144] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Mujahid – Into whichever image what He so Desires, He Constitutes you [82: 8]. He said, ‘Either ugly, or handsome, and resembling father or mother, or a maternal uncle or paternal uncle’’. [145] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ali Bin Riyah, from his father, from his grandfather –
‘The Prophet-saww said to him: ‘What has been born for you? ’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! What can possible be born for me? Either it is a boy or a girl! ’ He-saww said: ‘So whom does he resemble’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! What can he possibly resemble? Either his father or his mother’. He-saww said: ‘Do not be saying this! The seed, when it settles in the womb, Allah-azwj Presents to it every attribution between it and Adam-as. He-azwj Constitutes his creation in the image from those images. Have you nor read this Verse in the Book of Allah-azwj: Into whichever image what He so Desires, He Constitutes you [82: 8]? – from your is your lineage what is between you and Adam-as’’. [146] (from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abu Hatim – Regarding His-azwj Words: Coming from between the loins and the ribs [86: 7]. He said, ‘Loins of the man and ribs of the woman. The child cannot happen to be except from these two’’. [147] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abzy who said – ‘The loins form the man and the ribs from the woman’’. [148] (Not a Hadeeth + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas – Coming from between the loins and the ribs [86: 7]. He said, ‘What is between the throat and the windpipe’’. [149] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Mujahid who said, ‘The ribs lower than the collar bone’’. [150] (Not a Hadeeth + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas – Regarding His-azwj Words: and the ribs [86: 7]. He said, ‘Ribs of the woman, and it is a place of the necklace’’. [151]
And from Ibn Abbas – Nafie Bin Al Azraq said to him, ‘Inform me about Words of Mighty and Majestic: Coming from between the loins and the ribs [86: 7]. He said, ‘The ribs from the woman is a place of the necklace’. He said, ‘And do the Arabs know that? ’ He said, ‘Yes. Have you not heard the words of the poet, ‘And the Saffron is upon her ribs, the clothes and the throat are shining with it’? ’’[152] (Opinion is forbidden in interpreting Holy Verses + from a non-Shia source)
And from Ikrimah (Bin Abu Jahl-la) – He was asked about His-azwj Words: Coming from between the loins and the ribs