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What Has Been Related About Not Performing The Ṣalāt For The Child Until One Is Sure He Was Alive At Birth

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Darussalam · Volume 2

8. The Chapters On Janā'iz From The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 339

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1032. Jābir narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "The child is not prayed over, nor does he inherit, nor is he inherited from until one is sure he was alive at birth." (Da'if) Abū 'Eisā said: The people are confused in the case of this Hadīth. Some of them reported it from Abū Az-Zubair, from Jābir, from the Prophet ﷺ in Marfū' form. Ash'ath bin Sawwār and others, reported it from Abū Az-Zubair, from Jābir in Mawqūf form. (Muḥammad bin Ishāq reported it from 'Aṭā' bin Abī Rabāh, from Jābir in Mawqūf form.) It is as if this is more correct than the Marfū' narration. Some of the people of knowledge followed this, they said that the child is not prayed over until one is sure he was alive at birth. This is the view of (Sufyān) Ath-Thawrī and Ash-Shāfi'i.

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١٠٣٢ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌أَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا ‌مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْوَاسِطِيُّ ، عَنْ ‌إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ الْمَكِّيِّ ، عَنْ ‌أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ ، عَنْ ‌جَابِرٍ ؛ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «الطِّفْلُ لَا يُصَلَّى عَلَيْهِ» وَلَا يَرِثُ وَلَا يُورَثُ حَتَّى يَسْتَهِلَّ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ قَدِ اضْطَرَبَ النَّاسُ فِيهِ، فَرَوَاهُ بَعْضُهُمْ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرْفُوعًا، وَرَوَى أَشْعَثُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ مَوْقُوفًا، وَرَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ أَبِي رَبَاحٍ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ مَوْقُوفًا. وَكَأَنَّ هَذَا أَصَحُّ مِنَ الْحَدِيثِ الْمَرْفُوعِ. وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ إِلَى هَذَا؛ قَالُوا: لَا يُصَلَّى عَلَى الطِّفْلِ حَتَّى يَسْتَهِلَّ، وَهُوَ قَوْلُ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ وَالشَّافِعِيِّ.

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