English translation
[6724] (...) It was narrated from Al-A'mash with this chain of narrators (a Hadīth similar to no. 6723). In the Hadīth of Waki' it says: "The creation of any one of you is put together in his mother's womb for forty nights." In the Hadīth of Mu'adh from Shu'bah it says: "Forty nights or forty days." In the Hadīth of Jarir and 'Eisā it says: "Forty days."
