How many people spoke while they were infants?
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Question:
You mentioned yesterday that three people spoke while they were infants: Isa ibn Maryam, the boy with Jarir, and the man with the woman. And there is a hadith here from Imam Ahmad, where he said: Ahmad narrated to us, 'Afan narrated to us, Hammad ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thabit, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, from Suhayb: that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: and he mentioned the story of the boy with the trench, and at the end he said: . And Ibn Kathir mentioned it in his tafsir of Surat al-Buruj?
Answer:
If it is authentic, he would be a fourth infant. If it is authentic that he was a nursing baby, he might not have been a nursing baby, for some nursing babies speak. But if it is authentic that he was a nursing baby, he would be the fourth along with the three whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned.
You mentioned yesterday that three people spoke while they were infants: Isa ibn Maryam, the boy with Jarir, and the man with the woman. And there is a hadith here from Imam Ahmad, where he said: Ahmad narrated to us, 'Afan narrated to us, Hammad ibn Salama narrated to us, from Thabit, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla, from Suhayb: that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
There was among those before you a king, and he had a sorcerer. When the sorcerer grew old, he said to the king: "Indeed, I have grown old, and my time has come near..."
كان فيمَن كان قبلكم ملك، وكان له ساحرٌ، فلما كبر الساحر قال للملك: إني قد كبر سني، وحضرني الأجل ..So a woman came with her son, nursing him, and it seemed as if she hesitated to fall into the fire. So the boy said: "Be patient, O my mother, for you are upon the truth."
فجاءت امرأةٌ بابنٍ لها تُرضعه، فكأنَّها تقاعست أن تقع في النار، فقال الصبيُّ: اصبري يا أُمَّاه فإنَّك على الحقِّAnswer:
If it is authentic, he would be a fourth infant. If it is authentic that he was a nursing baby, he might not have been a nursing baby, for some nursing babies speak. But if it is authentic that he was a nursing baby, he would be the fourth along with the three whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned.
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