أَصْطَفَى ٱلْبَنَاتِ عَلَى ٱلْبَنِينَ
Astafal banaati 'alal baneen
Has He chosen daughters over sons?
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Oneness of Allah
37:153Ayah 1182
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Has He preferred daughters to sons? read a’stafā ‘has He preferred’ indicating an interrogative hamza which stands in place of the omitted conjunctive hamza.
Related Hadiths
Have you, besides him, other sons? He said: Yes. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Have you given gifts to all of them like this (as you have given to Nu'man)? He said: No. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: I cannot bear witness to an injustice.
"The Prophet (ﷺ) gave a boy the choice between his father and his mother."
“three sisters, or three daughter, or two daughter, or two sisters”.
I The daughter of jahsh had been mustabida for seven years," and the rest of the hadith is the same (as mentioned above).
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