وعنه ، قال: سئل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ذراري المشركين، قال: الله أعلم بما كانوا عاملين
Also from him (Sayyidina Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him) it is narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about the children of the polytheists, and he said: Allah knows best what they would have been doing. Muttafaq alayh.
Fiqh al-Hadith:
➊ Will the children of the polytheists enter Paradise or Hell? This is a matter of divine decree, and only Allah knows what deeds they would have done in the world.
➋ The funeral prayer will not be offered for the children of the polytheists.
➌ It is better to remain silent about the children of the polytheists.
➍ See also Idwa al-Masabih: 84, Monthly al-Hadith Hazro: 33, p. 6.
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وعن عبادة بن الصامت رضي الله عنه، قال قال رسول الله ﷺ: إن أول ما خلق الله القلم، فقال له: اكتب: فقال: ما أكتب؟ قال: اكتب القدر. فكتب ما كان وما هو كائن إلى الأبد.رواه الترمذي وقال: هذا حديث غريب إسناداً. It is narrated from (Sayyidina) Ubadah bin al-Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Indeed, Allah first created the pen. Then He said to it: Write. It said: What should I write? Allah said: Write the decree. So the pen wrote what has happened and what will happen.
It was narrated by al-Tirmidhi (2155), who said: This hadith is (hasan) gharib in terms of its chain.
Verification of the Hadith:
The narration in Sunan al-Tirmidhi is weak because of Abd al-Wahid bin Sulaym al-Maliki al-Basri.
Regarding the aforementioned Abd al-Wahid, Hafiz Ibn Hajar writes:
ضعيف
However, in the text of this narration Abd al-Wahid is not alone; rather, its supporting reports are found in Musnad Ahmad (5/317, no. 22705), Kitab al-Sunnah by Ibn Abi Asim (102-104, 106-108), Rawdat al-Uqala by Ibn Hibban (p. 157), Sunan Abi Dawud (4700), and Musnad Abi Ya’la (2329), among others. Among these supporting reports, the best is the one narrated by Abu Ya’la al-Mawsili from Sayyidina Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: اِن أول شئ خلقه الله القلم و أمره فكتب كل شئ. “Indeed, the first thing Allah created was the pen, and He commanded it, so it wrote everything.”
With these supporting reports, the above-mentioned narration of al-Tirmidhi is also hasan or sahih. والحمدلله
Fiqh al-Hadith:
➊ Allah Almighty created the pen first among all creation.
➋ Those who say that Allah Almighty first created the Prophet ﷺ or his light ﷺ have no evidence; rather, their belief contradicts this sahih hadith.
Sheikh al-Albani (may Allah have mercy on him) says:
وهو من الأدلة الظاهرة على بطلان الحديث المشهور أول ما خلق الله نور نبيك يا جابر! وقد جهدت فى أن أقف على سنده فلم يتيسر لي ذلك.
“This hadith is among the clear proofs that establish the falsehood of the well-known narration (among the ignorant): O Jabir! Allah first created the light of your Prophet.” I have searched very hard for a chain for this (false) narration, but I have not found any chain for it.
The existence of this baseless and fabricated narration is found in the fabricated book of the Shiites, Usul al-Kafi (vol. 1, p. 442, published by Dar al-Kutub al-Islamiyyah, Tehran, Iran) with a mawdu’ chain.
وعن مسلم بن يسار قال: سئل عمر بن الخطاب رضى الله عنه عن هٰذه الآية: وَ اِذۡ اَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنۡۢ بَنِيۡۤ اٰدَمَ مِنۡ ظُهُوۡرِهِمۡ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمۡ الآية، قال عمر: سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يسأل عنها فقال: إن الله خلق آدم ثم مسح ظهره بيمينه فاستخرج منه ذرية فقال: خلقت هؤلاء للجنة، وبعمل أهل الجنة يعملون ثم مسح ظهره فاستخرج منه ذرية فقال: خلقت هؤلاء للنار و بعمل أهل النار يعملون.فقال رجل: ففيم العمل؟ يا رسول الله ! فقال رسول الله ﷺ: إن الله إذا خلق العبد للجنة استعمله بعمل أهل الجنة حتي يموت على عمل من أعمال أهل الجنة فيد خله به الجنة و إذاخلق العبد للنار استعمله بعمل أهل النار حتي يموت على عمل من أعمال أهل النار فيدخله به النار.
It is narrated from Muslim bin Yasar that (Sayyidina) Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about this verse, “And when your Lord took from the children of Adam from their loins their offspring…” up to the end of the verse (al-A’raf: 172), and he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ being asked about it, and he said: Indeed, when Allah created Adam, He passed His right hand over his back and extracted from it his offspring, and said: I have created these for Paradise, and they will do the deeds of the people of Paradise. Then He passed His hand over his back again and extracted from it his offspring, and said: I have created these for Hell, and they will do the deeds of the people of Hell. A man asked: O Messenger of Allah, then what is the need for deeds? The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: When Allah creates a servant for Paradise, He enables him to do the deeds of the people of Paradise until he dies upon one of the deeds of the people of Paradise, and thereby He admits him to Paradise. And when He creates a servant for Hell, He employs him in the deeds of the people of Hell until he dies upon one of the deeds of the people of Hell, and thereby He admits him to Hell.
It was narrated by Malik (al-Muwatta 1/898, no. 1726), al-Tirmidhi (3075, he said: hasan, and Muslim did not hear from Umar), and Abu Dawud (4703).
Verification of the Hadith:
The chain of this narration is weak due to being munqati’ (broken), because Muslim bin Yasar did not hear anything from Sayyidina Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). In the second chain of this narration, Nu’aym bin Rabi’ah is a narrator of unknown status (majhul al-hal), whom only Ibn Hibban declared trustworthy (thiqah).
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