Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 248 – Volume 5, Book 58

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Volume 5, Book 58, Number 248:
Narrated Asma:
That she conceived 'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair. She added, "I migrated to Medina while I was at full
term of pregnancy and alighted at Quba where I gave birth to him. Then I brought him to the
Prophet and put him in his lap. The Prophet asked for a date, chewed it, and put some of its juice in
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the child's mouth. So, the first thing that entered the child's stomach was the saliva of Allah's Apostle.
Then the Prophet rubbed the child's palate with a date and invoked for Allah's Blessings on him, and
he was the first child born amongst the Emigrants in the Islamic Land (i.e. Medina).