@ARTICLE{Eich_Thomas_The_2021, author={Eich, Thomas}, volume={vol. LXXIV}, number={No 1}, pages={5-57}, journal={Rocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={The Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Publishing House ELIPSA}, abstract={This article provides an isnād cum matn analysis of a hadīt transmitted by Hudayfa Ibn Asīd describing how an angel visits the unborn in the womb. During the visit, several things are predestined. The hadīt has a prominent position at the beginning of the chapter on predestination in the hadīt collection of Muslim. The article shows, how the arrangement of the material in that opening section, which has to be dated to the 9th century CE, had the effect of closing a debate whether the individual’s destiny in the hereafter is predestined.}, type={Article}, title={The Topos of the Unborn in Early Islamic Predestination Debates: A Study of the hadīth of Hudayfa Ibn Asīd in Sahīh Muslim}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120304/ROrient%2074%20z.%201-21%202EICH.pdf}, doi={10.24425/ro.2021.137245}, keywords={ḥadīṯ, predestination, isnād cum matn analysis, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim}, }