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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad:2497 – Sufyān > Layth > a man

[Machine] Ibn Abbas said to her, "You were named Umm al-Mu'minin (Mother of the Believers) so that you may be happy, and indeed it was your name before you were born."  

أحمد:٢٤٩٧ – حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ لَيْثٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ

قَالَ لَهَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ إِنَّمَا سُمِّيتِ أُمَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لِتَسْعَدِي وَإِنَّهُ لاسْمُكِ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُولَدِي  

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Collected by Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai-kubra:11859 – Sūwayd b. Naṣr > ʿAbdullāh > Yūnus b. Abū Isḥāq > Bakr b. Māʿiz > al-Rabīʿ b. Khuthaym Atat Āb.ah Lah > Yā Abatāh Adhhab Alʿab Falammā Aktharat ʿAlayh > Lah Baʿḍ Julasāʾih Law Amartahā Fadhahabat > Lā Yaktub ʿAlī al-Yawm > Āmurahā

[Machine] "To play"  

الكبرى للنسائي:١١٨٥٩ – عَنْ سُوَيْدِ بْنِ نَصْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ مَاعِزٍ أَنَّ الرَّبِيعَ بْنَ خُثَيْمٍ أَتَتِ ابْنَةٌ لَهُ فَقَالَتْ يَا أَبَتَاهُ أَذْهَبُ أَلْعَبُ؟ فَلَمَّا أَكْثَرَتْ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ جُلَسَائِهِ لَوْ أَمَرْتَهَا فَذَهَبَتْ فَقَالَ «§لَا يَكْتُبْ عَلِيَّ الْيَوْمَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ أَنْ آمُرَهَا

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