Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ، الْحَمِيدِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ، الأَشَجُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، كُلُّهُمْ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ وَكِيعٍ إِنَّ خَلْقَ أَحَدِكُمْ يُجْمَعُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً وَقَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا وَأَمَّا فِي حَدِيثِ جَرِيرٍ وَعِيسَى أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا
isnad (chain of narrators) text
Abdul Hamid Siddiqui
This hadith has been reported on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Waki' (the words are):" The creation of any one of you is like this that (semen) is collected in the womb of the mother for forty nights," and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba (the words are):" Forty nights and forty days." And in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Jarir and 'Isa (the words are):" Forty days
Chain of Narrators (Isnad)
The chain is ordered from the source of the saying to the compiler: 1 = the speaker/first transmitter, the following links those who passed it on in turn, and at the bottom Muslim who compiled the work. Click a narrator to list every hadith in which he appears; the number in parentheses is how many hadiths across the collections on this site the narrator appears in.
This hadith is transmitted through 4 separate chains (turuq); each chain is shown separately.
Path 1
- 1Sulaiman al-A'mash (845 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2Cerîr b. Abdülhamîd (237 hadiths) an
- 3Osman b. Ebû Şeybe (164 hadiths) and Ishaq bin Ibrahim Shykh (594 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 4Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 3 narrators.
Path 2
- 1Sulaiman al-A'mash (845 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2'Isa bin Yonus bin Abi Ishaq (131 hadiths) ahberanâ
- 3Ishaq bin Ibrahim Shykh (594 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 4Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 3 narrators.
Path 3
- 1Sulaiman al-A'mash (845 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2Waki' bin al-Jarrah (371 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 3'Abdullah bin Sa'id al-Ashaj (61 hadiths) haddesenî
- 4Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 3 narrators.
Path 4
- 1Sulaiman al-A'mash (845 hadiths) Source of the saying an
- 2Shu'bah bin al-Hajjaj (1511 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 3babam (493 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 4Ubeydullah b. Muâz (175 hadiths) haddesenâ
- 5Compiler Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushayri
Chain length: 4 narrators.
Narrator names are parsed automatically from the isnad; identity matching and biographies (death year, jarh wa ta'dil) are being added progressively.
