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Sahih Muslim
كتاب القدر
The Book of Destiny
" أَنَّ مَلَكًا مُوَكَّلاً بِالرَّحِمِ إِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ شَيْئًا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ لِبِضْعٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً "
There is an angel who looks after the womb when Allah decides to create any- thing after more than forty nights are over; the rest of the hadith is the same.
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- Hadith 2645c
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- Hadith 2646
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- Hadith 2645b
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- Hadith 2647a
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- Hadith 2645a
Evil one is he who is evil in the womb of his mother and the good one is he who takes a lesson from the (fate of) others. The narrator came to a person from…
- Hadith 2647b
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Mansur with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.