He then said: “I say: If authentic, it does not conflict with it, for it does not deny him Paradise on account of his parents’ deed. Rather, a good person is not generally formed from corrupt seed, and only a wholesome soul enters Paradise. If there is one who is wholesome within this category, he will enter Paradise; thus, the hadith is a general statement subject to a specified exception.

“There is also the report condemning him as ‘the worst of the three.’ It is a good hadith, and its meaning is sound in this respect: the evil of the two parents is incidental, whereas this person’s seed is corrupt and his evil is inherent in his origin, while the evil of the two parents stems from their own deed.”

673 — “No one undutiful to his parents, no one who reminds others of his favours, no habitual drinker of wine, and no child born of fornication shall enter Paradise.”

It was recorded by al-Dārimī (2/112), as well as al-Nasāʾī (2/332), al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr (124), ʿAbd al-Razzāq in al-Muṣannaf (2/205), Ibn Khuzaymah in al-Tawḥīd (p. 236), Ibn Ḥibbān (1382, 1383), al-Ṭaḥāwī in al-Mushkil (1/395), and Aḥmad (2/201, 203), through the route of Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Jābān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with this wording. Al-Bukhārī recorded only the additional wording, and he said: