At a glance
«… عَلَى أَبِي سَرِيحَةَ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ أَسِيدٍ الْغِفَارِيِّ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ بِأُذُنَىَّ هَاتَيْنِ يَقُولُ " إِنَّ النُّطْفَةَ تَقَعُ فِي الرَّحِمِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ يَتَصَوَّرُ عَلَيْهَا الْمَلَكُ ". قَالَ زُهَيْرٌ حَسِبْتُهُ قَالَ الَّذِي يَخْلُقُهَا " فَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَذَكَرٌ أَوْ أُنْثَى فَيَجْعَلُهُ اللَّهُ ذَكَرًا أَوْ أُنْثَى ثُمَّ يَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَسَوِيٌّ أَوْ غَيْرُ سَوِيٍّ فَيَجْعَلُهُ اللَّهُ …»
A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources
Connections
- Mentions
- Anatomy
People and things also explored
Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· Surgery, the work of the hand (al-jiraha)· Medicine· Sunan Abi Dawud 1285 — the joints of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 1286 — the joints of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 182 — the stages of the embryo· Sunan Abi Dawud 202 — the organs of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 2195 — the stages of the embryo
Sources
- Sahih Muslim
- hadith-api (fawazahmed0): open hadith editions
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islam.museum contributors. “Sahih Muslim 6728 — the stages of the embryo”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muslim-api-6728/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-14.
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