Ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khushayshī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad informed us; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Adami, the Qurʾān-reciter, informed us; Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Wāqidī narrated to us; Maʿmar narrated, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah — may Allah be pleased with him — who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Every newborn is touched by Satan at the moment he is born, so he begins to scream because of Satan’s touch, except Mary and her son.”
Abū Hurayrah would then add, “Recite, if you wish: ‘I seek Your protection for her and her offspring from Satan, the accursed’ (1) [Āl ʿImrān 3:36].”
I read this before Abū al-Fahm ibn Aḥmad al-Sulamī; ʿAbd-Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Faqīh informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Mālik ibn Aḥmad al-Bānyāsī narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal informed us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Farraj narrated to us; al-Wāqidī narrated to us; ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar narrated, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Arwā al-Sadūsī, who said:
I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when Abū Bakr and ʿUmar came into view. He said, “Praise be to Allah, who has supported me by means of you two.” (2)
Ismāʿīl ibn al-Farrāʾ informed us; Ibn Qudāmah informed us; Ibn al-Baṭṭī informed us