سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ النُّطْفَةَ إِذَا وَقَعَتْ فِي الرَّحِمِ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَلَكاً فَأَخَذَ مِنَ التُّرْبَةِ الَّتِي يُدْفَنُ فِيهَا فَمَاثَهَا فِي النُّطْفَةِ فَلَا يَزَالُ قَلْبُهُ يَحِنُّ إِلَيْهَا حَتَّى يُدْفَنَ فِيهَا .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al Hajjal, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Abu Minhal, from Al Haris Bin Al Mugheira who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘When the seed falls into the womb, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Sends an Angel who takes from the soil in which he is to be buried, so he dissolves it in the seed. So his heart does not cease to yearn towards it until he is buried in it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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