Al Tabarini: al'Ahadith altwal Tabarini

(Hadith of Al Tabarini) (d971)

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Taken from: كتاب الأحاديث الطوال للطبراني   by الطبراني  al-maktaba.org

Full name: Sulaiman ibn Ahmad ibn Ayyub ibn Mutair al-Lakhmi al-Shami, Abu al-Qasim al-Tabarani

P283

Tell us what the descendants of Moses preach; Thana Huawdah bin Khalifa, he said: Thana Aufun, from Khalas ibn Amr, from Abu Hurayrah (1) may Allah be pleased with him, The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

Before a woman breastfeed her son a Persian passed by asking arrogantly for alms, the woman said: God does not even wish to see my son such a Persian, the boy took the breast and said: Oh God, do not make me like this Persian, then he returned to breast suckling. Then there passed by an Ethiopian or Zanji, she said: I forbid my son in God to die like this Ethiopian or Zanji, he said: Oh God, grant me her death. His mother said: My son, I asked your Lord to make you like this Persian, so I said: God does not make me like him. And I asked our Lord Almighty that this Ethiopian or Zanji is not like to you, I asked your Lord. The boy said: You asked your Lord to make me like a man from the people of Hell, and Abyssinia or Zanji were her people and they beat her and said: God willing.

(1) Abu Hurayra Abd al-Raḥman ibn Sakhr al-Dawsi al-Zahrani(d678), commonly known as Abu Hurayra, was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the most prolific hadith narrator in Sunni Islam.