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What is the validity of some people’s claim that the soul is breathed into the fetus after forty days?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: Some Muslim doctors have attempted to reinterpret the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
a human being is put together in the womb of the mother in fortyإن أحدكم يجمع خلقه في بطن أمه أربعين
Sahih al-Bukhari 3208
. Some Muslim doctors have attempted to reinterpret the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
a human being is put together in the womb of the motherإن أحدكم يجمع خلقه في بطن أمه
Sahih al-Bukhari 3208
. "Forty days as a drop of fluid, then as a clot, and so on?" He said that the breathing of the soul occurs only after forty days.

Answer:
They mock it for you, yes, meaning while it is a drop of fluid or a clot, then he comes and reinterprets the hadith. Did the scholars, from the time of the Messenger until now, not understand it until this poor man came and said, "I understood it"? What is this talk? Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4396- 4717] ما صحة قول بعضهم إن نفخ الروح في الجنين يكون بعد أربعين يوما؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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