This hadith has been reported on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Waki' (the words are):
" The creation of any one of you is like this that (semen) is collected in the womb of the mother for forty nights," and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shu'ba (the words are):" Forty nights and forty days." And in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Jarir and 'Isa (the words are):" Forty days."
حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ جَرِيرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ، الْحَمِيدِ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ، الأَشَجُّ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَاهُ عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ، كُلُّهُمْ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ . قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ وَكِيعٍ " إِنَّ خَلْقَ أَحَدِكُمْ يُجْمَعُ فِي بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً " . وَقَالَ فِي حَدِيثِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ " أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا " . وَأَمَّا فِي حَدِيثِ جَرِيرٍ وَعِيسَى " أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْمًا " .
Isnad
10 transmitters- 1'Uthman bin Muhammad (Abi Shayba)al-Kufa · d. 239 AH
- 2Ishaq bin Ibrahim bin Muhammadal-Basra · d. 253 AH
- 3Jarir bin 'Abdul Hameed al-RaziKufa,Ray' · d. 188 AH
- 4Ishaq bin Ibrahim bin Muhammadal-Basra · d. 253 AH
- 5'Isa bin Yonus bin Abi IshaqKufa,al-Syria · d. 191 AH
- 6'Abdullah bin Sa'id al-Ashajal-Kufa · d. 257 AH
- 7Waki' bin al-JarrahKufa · d. ~197 AH
- 8'Ubaidullah bin Mua'dhal-Basra · d. 237 AH
- 9Mua'dh bin Mua'dh bin Nsral-Basra · d. 196 AH
- 10Shu'bah bin al-HajjajWasit,Basra · d. 160 AH
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 46, Hadith 2
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 33, Hadith 6391 (deprecated numbering scheme)