مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب الجنائز
The Book of Funerals
(الأَطْفَالُ الصِّغَارُ رُحَّلُ الْجَنَّةِ)
(Small children are visitors of Paradise)
Hadith Number: 1752
وعن ابي هريرة ان رجلا قال له: مات ابن لي فوجدت عليه هل سمعت من خليلك صلوات الله عليه شيئا يطيب بانفسنا عن موتانا؟ قال: نعم سمعته صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: «صغارهم دعاميص الجنة يلقى احدهم اباه فياخذ بناحية ثوبه فلا يفارقه حتى يدخله الجنة» . رواه مسلم واحمد واللفظ له
Abu Huraira said that a man who told him a son of his had died and that he was grieved asked him if he had heard anything from his friend which would comfort them regarding their dead. He replied that he had, for he had heard him say,“Their young ones roam freely in paradise. One of them meets his father, seizes the end of his garment and does not leave him until he brings him into paradise." Muslim and Ahmad transmitted it, the wording being the latter’s.
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