Caution: Translations of Quran and Ḥadīth may lead to possible misapplications and misinterpretations. This site is intended for students of sacred knowledge that are proficient in comprehending classical Arabic and have a strong foundation in Islamic sciences. Also note that religious injunctions rely on several aspects beyond what one may glean through reading individual aḥādīth.
Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī Misc
quran:7:190 –

But when He gives them a good ˹child˺, they ascribe partners to Him concerning that which He has given them. Exalted is Allah above what they associate with Him.  

But when He gave them a sound one, ˹a sound˺ child, they ascribed to Him associates (shurakā’a: a variant reading has shirkan, meaning sharīkan, ‘an associate’) in that which He had given them, by naming it ‘Abd al-Hārith, ‘servant of al-Hārith’, when it is not right to be a ‘servant’ (‘abd) of any one but ‘God’ ˹sc. ‘Abd Allāh˺, but this ˹namesake ‘Abd˺ is not an association ˹of another with God˺ in terms of servitude, for Adam was immune ˹from a sin such as associating others in worship with God˺. Samura ˹b. Jundub˺ reported that the Prophet (s) said, ‘On one occasion when Eve gave birth — all the children she bore had failed to survive — Satan visited her and said ˹to her˺, “Name it ˹the child˺ ‘Abd al-Hārith, and it will live.” She named it so and it lived. This ˹affair˺ was the result of Satan’s inspiration and his doings’: reported by al-Hākim, who deemed it ˹the report˺ ‘sound’ (sahīh), and ˹also reported˺ by al-Tirmidhī, who considered it ‘fair-uncommon’ (hasan gharīb); but exalted is God above what they, the people of Mecca, associate, in the way of idols (this sentence is consequent, a supplement to ˹the one beginning with˺ khalaqakum, ‘He created you’, so that what comes between the two is a parenthetical statement).
القرآن:٧:١٩٠ –

فَلَمَّا آتَاهُمَا صَالِحًا جَعَلَا لَهُ شُرَكَاءَ فِيمَا آتَاهُمَا ۚ فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ  

{فلمَّا آتاهما} ولدا {صالحا جعلا له شركاء} وفي قراءة بكسر الشين والتنوين أي شريكا {فيما آتاهما} بتسميته عبد الحارث ولا ينبغي أن يكون عبدا إلا لله، وليس بإشراك في العبودية لعصمة آدم وروى سمرة عن النبي ﷺ قال: لما ولدت حواء طاف بها إبليس وكان لا يعيش لها ولد فقال: سميه عبد الحارث فإنه يعيش فسمته فعاش فكان ذلك من وحي الشيطان وأمره رواه الحاكم وقال صحيح والترمذي وقال حسن غريب {فتعالى الله عما يشركون} أي أهل مكة به من الأصنام، والجملة مسببة عطف على خلقكم وما بينهما اعتراض.

Add your own reflection below:

Sign in with Google to add or reply to reflections.