while others will not. Those in the latter group, then, belong to those who fail to respond, so there is no inconsistency—praise and bounty belong to Allah alone.

As for the report cited by al-Suhaylī, who noted that its chain contains unknown narrators up to Ibn Abī al-Zinād, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked his Lord to revive his parents, whereupon He brought them back to life and they believed in him, this ḥadīth is exceedingly objectionable. Although such a thing is certainly within Allah’s power, the authentic narrations recorded in the Ṣaḥīḥ conflict with it. Allah knows best.

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Ibn Isḥāq (1) said: After the death of his mother Āminah bint Wahb, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ lived with his grandfather ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim. A special carpet was spread for ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib in the shade of the Kaʿbah, and his sons would sit around it until he came out to them; none of them sat on it out of reverence for him.

He continued: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would come, still a young boy (2), and sit upon that carpet. His uncles would try to move him away, but when ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib saw this he said, “Leave my son; by Allah, he has a great destiny.” He would then seat him beside him on the carpet, stroke his back with his hand, and take delight in what he observed of him.

Al-Wāqidī (3) said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to me from al-Zuhrī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh (4); Hāshim ibn ʿĀṣim al-Aslamī narrated to us from al-Munḏhir ibn Jahm; Maʿmar narrated to us from Ibn Abī Najīḥ from Mujāhid; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us from Abū al-Ḥuwayrith; and Ibn Abī Sabrah narrated to us from Sulaymān ibn Suḥaym from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr—their reports blending together—

They said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stayed with his mother Āminah bint Wahb, and when she died his grandfather ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib took him into his care, embracing him with a tenderness he had never shown his own children. He kept him close, drew him near, and admitted him whether he was alone or asleep. The boy would sit on his bedding, and whenever ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib saw that he would say, “Leave my son; a king is conversing with him.”

Some men of Banū Mudlij said to ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, “Watch over him carefully, for we have never seen feet more closely resembling the footprints in the Stone.”