Sahih al-Bukhari 3746 (Book 63, Hadith 134)
term of pregnancy and alighted at Quba where I gave birth to him. Then I brought him to the Prophet (ﷺ)
and put him in his lap. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked for a date, chewed it, and put some of its juice in the child’s
mouth. So, the first thing that entered the child’s stomach was the saliva of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). Then the
Prophet rubbed the child’s palate with a date and invoked for Allah’s Blessings on him, and he was the
first child born amongst the Emigrants in the Islamic Land (i.e. Medina).
Sahih al-Bukhari 3746 (Book 63, Hadith 134)
The above hadith is from the Sahih al-Buhari collection of hadiths. The compilation known as Sahih al-Bukhari is a paramount collection of the Sunnah and hadith of the Prophet Muhammad. Its creator, Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī, dedicated his life to this work, completing it around 847. It holds a position of immense respect as arguably the most authentic book in Sunni Islam after the Holy Quran. As a key pillar of the six canonical books (Kutub al-Sittah), its detailed 97-chapter structure houses an estimated 7,563 narrations that continue to shape Islamic theology, law, and ethics to this day.
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