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Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book on Dying People · Chapter 26- Dead Woman with a Baby Moving Inside Her · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 26, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَقْطِينٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ الْعَبْدَ الصَّالِحَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) عَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ تَمُوتُ وَوَلَدُهَا فِي بَطْنِهَا قَالَ يُشَقُّ بَطْنُهَا وَيُخْرَجُ وَلَدُهَا.

Published English translation

1. Humayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn Muhammad from Sama‘ah from Muhammad ibn abu Hamzah from Ali ibn Yaqtin who has said the f oho wing: “I once asked the virtuous servant of Allah about the case of a woman who dies with her child in her womb. He (the Imam) (a.s.), said, ‘Her belly is opened to remove her child.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن (موثق)

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/330)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 233

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