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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

أَبُو رَجَاءٍ الْعُطَارِدِيُّ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ

tabarani:6993 – ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal > ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-Ḍabbī > ʿĪsá b. Shuʿayb > ʿAbbād b. Manṣūr > Abū Rajāʾ > Samurah b. Jundub

[Machine] We asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about the children of the polytheists, and he said, "They are the servants of the people of Paradise."  

الطبراني:٦٩٩٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ ثنا عُقْبَةُ بْنُ مُكْرَمٍ الضَّبِّيُّ ثنا عِيسَى بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدُبٍ قَالَ

سَأَلْنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ أَطْفَالِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَالَ «هُمْ خَدَمُ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ»  

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Collected by Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
ahmad:7637 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Maʿmar > al-Zuhrī > ʿAṭāʾ b. Yazīd al-Laythī > Abū Hurayrah

"The Messenger of Allah was asked about the children of the idolators and he said: 'Allah knows best what they would have done."' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 1949)  

أحمد:٧٦٣٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

سُئِلَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ أَطْفَالِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَالَ اللهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا كَانُوا عَامِلِينَ