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Hadith #
215
Book
Al-Kāfi
Volume
6
Section
38
Part
The Book of ‘Aqiqah (Offering Animal Sacrifice for a Newborn Child)
Chapter
Rare Ahadith
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī
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1. Abu Ali al-Ash‘ariy has narrated from narrated from Muhammad ibn Hassan from al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Nawfaliy from children of Nawfil ibn ‘ Abd al-Muttalib, narrated to me Muhammad ibn Ja‘far from Muhammad ibn Ali ibn ‘Isa from ‘ Abd Allah al-‘ Amriy from his father from his grandfather who has said the following
“’Amir al-Mu’minin (a.s.), has said about the illness that a child may suffer, ’It is expiation for his parents.’”
أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ النَّوْفَلِيِّ مِنْ وُلْدِ نَوْفَلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْعُمَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ
قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( صلوات الله عليه ) فِي الْمَرَضِ يُصِيبُ الصَّبِيَّ فَقَالَ كَفَّارَةٌ لِوَالِدَيْهِ .
Tags ChildrenTrials and AfflictionsExpiation (Kaffara)

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