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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ الْغُلَامَ الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ الْخَضِرُ لَمْ يَكُنْ بِمُسْلِمٍ

ibnhibban:6221al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Muḥammad b. Khallād al-Bāhilī Abū Bakr > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān from his father > Raqabah > Abū Isḥāq > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās > Ubay

that Ubayy bin Ka'b narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "The boy that Al-Khidr killed was destined to be a disbeliever the day he was created.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3150)   

ابن حبّان:٦٢٢١أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ خَلَّادٍ الْبَاهِلِيُّ أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ أُبَيِّ قَالَ قَالَ

نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِنَّ الْغُلَامَ الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ الْخَضِرُ طُبِعَ يَوْمَ طُبِعَ كَافِرًا»  


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Collected by Muslim, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
muslim:2662aʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah b. Qaʿnab > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān from his father > Raqabah b. Masqalah > Abū Isḥāq > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās > Ubay b. Kaʿb

The young man whom Khadir killed was a non-believer by his very nature and had he survived he would have involved his parents in defiance and unbelief.  

مسلم:٢٦٦٢aحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ قَعْنَبٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ بْنِ مَسْقَلَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِنَّ الْغُلاَمَ الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ الْخَضِرُ طُبِعَ كَافِرًا وَلَوْ عَاشَ لأَرْهَقَ أَبَوَيْهِ طُغْيَانًا وَكُفْرًا  

tirmidhi:3150Abū Ḥafṣ ʿAmr b. ʿAlī > Abū Qutaybah Salm b. Qutaybah > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. al-ʿAbbās al-Hamdānī > Abū Isḥāq > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās > Ubay b. Kaʿb

that Ubayy bin Ka'b narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "The boy that Al-Khidr killed was destined to be a disbeliever the day he was created.'"  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ-Gharīb.
الترمذي:٣١٥٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو حَفْصٍ عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو قُتَيْبَةَ سَلْمُ بْنُ قُتَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ الْغُلاَمُ الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ الْخَضِرُ طُبِعَ يَوْمَ طُبِعَ كَافِرًا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ
ahmad:21122ʿAbdullāh > Surayj b. Yūnus And ʾAbū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī > Salm b. Qutaybah > ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbbās al-Hamdānī > Abū Isḥāq > Saʿīd b. Jubayr > Ibn ʿAbbās > Ubay b. Kaʿb

that Ubayy bin Ka'b narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "The boy that Al-Khidr killed was destined to be a disbeliever the day he was created.'" (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3150)   

أحمد:٢١١٢٢حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ حَدَّثَنَا سُرَيْجُ بْنُ يُونُسَ وَأَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا سَلْمُ بْنُ قُتَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ الْغُلَامُ الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ صَاحِبُ مُوسَى طُبِعَ يَوْمَ طُبِعَ كَافِرًا  

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السيوطي:١١٥٠٥a

"الْغُلام الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ الخَضِرُ طُبْعَ يَوْمَ طُبعَ كَافِرًا وَلَوْ عَاشَ لأَرْهَق أَبَوَيهِ طُغْيَانًا وكُفْرًا" .  

[عم] زيادات عبد الله بن أحمد [م] مسلم [د] أبو داود [ت] الترمذي وأبو عوانة، [حب] ابن حبّان وابن مردويه عن ابن عباس عن أُبى بن كعب