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They Spoke In The Cradle
Narrated Abū Huraira
: The Prophet (saaws) said, "None spoke
in the cradle but three: (The first was) Jesus, (the second child
was): There was a man from Banī Israel called
Juraij. While he was offering prayer, his mother came and called him. He said
(to himself), "Shall I answer her or keep on praying?" (He went on
praying and did not answer her). His mother said,
"O Allah! Do not let him die till he sees
the faces of prostitutes." So while he was in his hermitage, a lady came
and sought to seduce him, but he refused. So she went to a shepherd and
presented herself to him to commit illegal sexual intercourse with her, and
then later she gave brith to a child and claimed that it belonged to Juraij.
The people, therefore, came to him and dismantled his hermitage and expelled
him out of it and abused him. Juraij performed ablution and offered prayer, and
then came to the child and said: "O child! Who is your father?" The child
replied, "The shepherd" (afteer hearing this) the people said,
"We shall rebuild your hermitage of gold," but he said: "No, of
nothing but mud." (The third was the
hero of the following story): A lady from Banī Israel was nursing her child at
her breast when a handsome rider passed by her. She said, "O Allah! Make
my child like him." on that the child left her breast and, facing the
rider said: "O Allah! Do not make me like him." The child then
started to suck her breast again. [(Abū Huraira further said, "As if I
were now looking at the Prophet sucking his finger (in way of
demonstration.")]. After a while they (some people) passed by, with a lady
slave and she (i.e. the child's mother) said, "O Allah! Do not make my
child like this (slave girl)!" On that the child left her breast, and
said, "O Allah! Make me like her." When she asked why, the child
replied, "The rider is one of the tyrants while this slave girl is falsely
accused of theft and illegal sexual intercourse." Hadith - Sahih Bukhari Vol.
4, No. 645, Narrated Abu Huraira, (Radiallaahu Anhu) |
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