CREATION IN THE

MOTHERS WOMB

Episode 4Hadith 4

ARABIC TEXT

ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The messenger of Allah, and he is the truthful, the
believed, narrated to us : "Verily the creation of each
one of you is brought together in his mother's belly
for forty days in the form of seed, then he is a clot of
blood for a like period, then a morsel of flesh for a
like period, then there is sent to him the angel who
blows the breath of life into him and who is
commanded about four matters: to write down his
means of livelihood, his life span, his actions, and
whether happy or unhappy.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION
By Allah, other than Whom there is no god, verily
one of you behaves like the people of Paradise until
there is but an arm's length between him and it, and
that which has been written over takes him and so
he behaves like the people of Hell-fire and thus he
enters it; and one of you behaves like the people of
Hell-fire until there is but an arm's length between
him and it, and that which has been written over
takes him and so he behaves like the people of
Paradise and thus he enters it."

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Collected and preserved

His creation, his being

Abdomen, stomach

A drop of fluid this word is not part of the hadith according to

the majority of scholars

Something that clings and adheres

A lump that looks like it has been chewed

The spirit, soul, breath of life

His sustenance, provisions

His life span

TAKHREEJ

Bukhari
Ibn
Majah

Muslim
Abdullah
b.
Masud

Abu
Dawud

Ahamd

Trimidhi

OTHER VERSIONS OF THE HADITH

Anas b.
Malik
Muslim

Jabir
Ahmad

Ibn Umar
Abu
Yala

Aishah
AlBazzar

Hudhaifah
b. Aseed
Muslim

GENERAL MEANING OF THE HADITH

Description of the Creation of Human Beings.

The Belief in Qadar (Allah has foreknowledge of what
everyone will do in this world)

NARRATOR

Abu Abdul Rahman Abdullah ibn Mas`ood (D. 32

A.H.\652 C.E.)
He was the sixth person to embrace Islam.
His mother was also a very early convert.
He related 848 hadith
He was best known for his knowledge of the Quran.

Whoever loves to recite the Quran as fresh as it was revealed, let him copy the
recitation of Ibn Umm Abd. (Abdullah Ibn Mas`ood)

THE CORRECT TEXT OF THIS HADITH

On the authority of Abdullah b.

Masud who said, Verirly
eachone of you is brought
together in his mothers
abdomen for forty days.
Thereafter it is therein a
clinging object during this
period. Thereafter, it is therein
a lump looking like it has been
chewed in this period. The
angel is then sent to him

WHY IS THERE A CHANGE IN THIS

VERSION?

The version related by al-Nawawi has idraj.

Idraj means insertion of a word or a phrase at

the body of the text. The word inserted is
nutfah.
According to the text after adding the word,
each stage of the development of fetus takes
forty days.
If we restore the text it should reads that all
stages take place in the first four months.

CORRECT READING OF THE TEXT

Surely, each one of you is brought toegher in his mothers

abdomen for forty days. It is then a clinging object during that
same period. Then it is a lump looking like it has been chewed
during that same period.
All those stages occur at the same name period.

THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH, AND HE IS AS-SAADIQ (THE

TRUTHFUL), AL-MASDOOQ (THE BELIEVED), NARRATED TO
US

As-Saadiq : The one who is truthful for everything.

This was a known feature of the prophet (p.b.u.h)

before receiving the revelation.

Al-Masdooq : the person to be believed in.

Those two characteristics were mentioned as an
emphasis to the scientific fact mentioned in the
haidith.

SURELY, EACH OF YOU IS BROUGHT

TOGETHER IN HIS MOTHERS ABDOMEN FOR
FORTY DAYS. IT IS THEN THEREIN A
CLINGING OBJECT DURING THIS PERIOD.
THEREAFTER IT IS THEREIN A LUMP
LOOKING IT HAS BEEN CHEWED DURING
THIS PERIOD.

STAGES OF HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT

Allah mentioned the first three stages of the development of the

fetus stated in the Hadith

O People, if you should be in doubt about the Resurrection,
then [consider that] indeed, We created you from dust, then
from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot, and then from
a lump of flesh, formed and unformed - that We may show
you

BROUGHT TOGETHER

The Arabic expression implies being brought

together and preserved
It describes the process when a male sperm
and ovum are both capacitated in the fallopian
tube.

IN HIS MOTHERS ABDOMEN (BATN)

The Arabic word batn refers to stomach or abdominal.

In other narrations the word whom is used.
Whom refers to the Arabic word rahim, which is derived from
the root rahima had mercy.
Ar-Rahmaan the All-Merciful is derived from the same root.

The womb (al-rahim) has taken its name from al-Rahm an (the
All-Merciful). Allah has said, Whoever keeps your ties I shall
keep his ties. Whoever cuts you off, I shall cut him off. Recorded
by Bukhari.

Stages of Human Development

Drop of Fluid

Other Creation

Mixed Sexual Fluid

Clothing Bones with

Flesh

Clinging Object

Lump Looking Chewed

Object

THE SECOND STAGE OF

CREATION

. .

Does man think that he will be left neglected?

Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted
(nutfah)? Then he was a clinging clot, and [
Allah ] created [his form] and proportioned
[him] And made of him two mates, the male
and the female

1. DROP OF FLUID (NUTFAH)

It is the male sperm.

Sex is determined
through the male sperm.

Not from the whole

fluid (ejaculated)
man is created.
Sperms constitute 0.5%
of the fluid

2. MIXED SEXUAL FLUID (NUTFAH AMSHAJ)

Hadith: man is created

from the both male and
female nutfah.
This is the medical
explanation of zygote and
performational stage.

Ibn al-Ahteer: the nutfah is

growing and developing
during that period unitl it
becomes ready for the
next period.

3. CLINGING OBJECT (ALAQAH)

Clinging object

From day 7

Day 13 and 14

leech

Implantation of the
blastocyst
Embedded by the 10
day.
The chronic villi
appears
Covers the whole
blastocyst

Connecting stalk The amniotic sac and

connects the
yolk sac to the outer
embryo proer
ball, the choriion.
with its true
coverings

4. LUMP LOOKING LIKE IT HAS BEEN

CHEWED DURING THAT SIMILAR
PERIOD.
Much of the axial
skeleton and
musculature will
develop.
Fairly equally distributed
indentations or bumps.

It is finished by the sixth

week (42 days after
conception).
This is confirmed in many
prophetic traditions.

AND HE BREATHES INTO HIM THE SPIRIT

The meaning of spirit, soul or (rooh)

The rooh is the life of the individual

Allah says about the rooh,

And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about the

soul. Say, "The soul is of the affair of my Lord.
And mankind have not been given of
knowledge except a little.

AR-ROOH ..?
It is a contingent, created, fashioned and
controlled.
There is a difference of opinions about the
essential nature of the spirit whether it is a
physical entity or an accident.
What is proved by the Quran, Sunnah, and
consensus is that it is a body of a different
essence than the physical body that we
see.
There is nothing specific that the
breathing in the of the rooh constitutes the

THIS HADITH STATES THAT THE FOLLOWING

ARE RECORDED
The amount of persons provision.
How long the person will live
Whether he will be among the fortunate or the
miserable.

THE FORTUNATE OR THE MISERABLE.

THE FORTUNATE OR THE MISERABLE.2

As for those who were [destined to be] wretched, they
will be in the Fire. For them therein is [violent] exhaling
and inhaling. [They will be] abiding therein as long as the
heavens and the earth endure, except what your Lord
should will. Indeed, your Lord is an effecter of what He
intends. And as for those who were [destined to be]
prosperous, they will be in Paradise, abiding therein as
long as the heavens and the earth endure, except what
your Lord should will - a bestowal uninterrupted.

ENDS ARE BASED ON THEIR FINAL DEED

The prophet states that the most important
deed is the final deed,
A person does the deeds of the people of Hell,
while he is from the people of paradise. And a
person does the deeds of the people of
paradise and he is from the people of hell.
Verily the deeds are based on their final deed

ABORTION
1. Unanimous agreement on the prohibition of abortion 120 days
after conception.

2. There is disagreement if it happened before the completion of 120 days

Hanafi

No sin, no gurrah , no bloods money if no signs of human

being are shown.

Hanafi

A perpetrator of abortion in any stage is sinful, relying on

the state of Ihram

Maliki

Abortion of clot of congealed blood requires a gurrah.

Hanbali

Before having the human features, there is no sin

THREE REASONS OF MAKING ABORTION IN

BEFORE 120 DAYS

Jeopardy or
fear of the
mother

Financial
burden

Desire to delay
pregnancy of
for keeping
herself in
shape.

FUNERAL PRAYERS FOR THE FETUS.