Suhaib Webb – Q&A Some Sunnahs of Childbirth

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The speaker discusses the importance of the hadith of Abu Rafi, which states that every child is held accountable for his or her on the 7th day. The speaker also discusses the dispensation of the name of Caberntina, which was not mentioned in the previous narrations, and the importance of cutting hair for boys and taking a piece of it for girls. The speaker also recommends having a fitra for boys and a piece of hair for girls.

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			May Allah bless you in all expecting mothers
		
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			and mothers who recently gave birth, my wife
		
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			included.
		
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			That's a wonderful experience.
		
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			What are some things that you need to
		
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			do? The first is the hadith of Abu
		
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			Rafi. It says, when
		
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			when she gave birth to Hasan the Prophet
		
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			and made Adhan in his right ear. The
		
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			narration says, in his left ear. And that
		
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			should be done not immediately but when you
		
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			can do it, when you can do it.
		
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			The second is the hadith of Abu Musa
		
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			al Ashari who says when he was blessed
		
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			with a son, he came to the prophet
		
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			of his son and the prophet Samahu
		
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			Ibrahim named him Ibrahim
		
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			What does that mean? The Prophet took some
		
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			dates and rubbed it on his gums, the
		
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			gums of the child. Not a lot, just
		
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			a little bit.
		
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			The third thing, and these things ideally need
		
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			to happen on the 7th day, although it's
		
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			not far that
		
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			they haven't happened on the 7th day. And
		
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			there are 3 things you wanna think about
		
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			that if possible should happen on the 7th
		
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			day. As for the 7th day from the
		
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			hadith of Samra, we said that the prophet
		
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			said
		
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			that every child is, like, held accountable,
		
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			for his or her
		
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			on the 7th day, something should be slaughtered
		
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			for him,
		
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			and his hair or hair should be cut
		
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			if possible.
		
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			And then finally, Usama, given a name. Now
		
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			the issue of the name can happen anytime
		
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			because other narrations, the one I just mentioned,
		
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			Cabernusah,
		
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			the day his child was born, the prophetess
		
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			named him. There's other narrations that show there's
		
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			some dispensation
		
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			in this.
		
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			So, you know, anywhere between the 1st and
		
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			7th day, the name is fine. But these
		
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			others, it's encouraged that they happen on the
		
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			7th day.
		
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			As for the Anapika, we attempted haditha slaughtering
		
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			of Abdullah ibn Abbas who said that the
		
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			prophet
		
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			also
		
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			the
		
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			same
		
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			hadith
		
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			he
		
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			said,
		
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			So you say, Bismillah,
		
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			Allah is the greatest, oh, Allah, this is
		
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			to you and for you.
		
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			And then you say, this is the of
		
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			such and such person. And you say their
		
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			name. And cutting the hair of the hadith
		
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			of Sayedafatimaa Abu Salam said that the prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to her, upon the
		
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			birth of her son, you should cut his
		
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			hair and then pay in charity the weight
		
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			of his hair
		
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			in
		
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			silver.
		
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			Now, some parents are concerned about the health
		
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			issues that may come of that, so you
		
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			should talk to your child's physician.
		
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			And if you can't cut all of their
		
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			hair off, you can take a piece of
		
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			the hair and do the same. It will
		
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			be sufficient to sharpen them. And finally from
		
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			fitra is circumcision. We know that for boys,
		
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			this is recommended must have,
		
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			and for girls, it's Magrul.
		
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			Since the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he didn't
		
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			do it for Sayda Fatima,
		
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			but
		
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			he did it for the boys
		
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			around him.