📖 Hadith: Hazrat Amina (may Allah be pleased with her) says:
«وَرَأَيْتُ ثَلَاثَ أَعْلَامٍ مَضْرُوبَاتٍ: عَلَمٌ فِي الْمَشْرِقِ، وَعَلَمٌ فِي الْمَغْرِبِ، وَعَلَمٌ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْكَعْبَةِ»
Reference: “I saw that three flags were erected: one in the east, another in the west, and the third on the roof of the Kaaba, and then the Prophet ﷺ was born.”
Reference: 📕 (Dala’il al-Nubuwwah by Abu Nu’aym 1/610, No. 555)
🔎 Research Status:
This narration is very weak and even fabricated (mawdu‘).
1️⃣ Narrator: Yahya ibn Abdullah al-Babulti
- Hafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him): “Weak”📕
Reference: (Taqreeb al-Tahdheeb: 7585, Tahdheeb al-Tahdheeb 11/240, No. 393)
2️⃣ His teacher: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Maryam
- According to the majority of hadith scholars, very weak: Imam Ahmad, Abu Dawood, Abu Hatim, Abu Zur‘ah, Yahya ibn Ma‘in, An-Nasa’i, Ad-Daraqutni (may Allah have mercy on them all) declared him weak and severely criticized.📕
Reference: (Taqreeb al-Tahdheeb: 7974, Tahdheeb al-Tahdheeb 12/28, No. 139)
✨ Conclusion:
This narration is absolutely not acceptable as evidence.
- The narrators in the chain are weak and severely criticized.
- Therefore, there is no authentic or good narration about flags being raised at the time of the birth of the Noble Prophet ﷺ.
📌 Presenting this narration as proof for the permissibility of putting up flags on the Mawlid celebration is a false argument.
