5 – ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Hurmuz al-Aʿraj narrates, on the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Every newborn is born upon the fitrah (the innate, pristine disposition), but it is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian.” Someone asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what about the one who dies in childhood?” He replied, “Allah knows best what they would have done.”