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Are there any Hadith specifically addressing genetics, along with their explanations?

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Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, is the Seal of the Prophets. Allah supported him with miracles, which are mentioned in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. The Qur'an is a book of guidance and miraculousness, challenging eloquent speakers with its eloquence. It is not a book of medicine or astronomy, even though it contains matters that astonish specialists. Among the miracles of the noble Prophetic Sunnah is what the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned to Abdullah ibn Salam regarding the Signs of the Hour, the first food for the people of Paradise, and the resemblance of a child to his parents or maternal uncles. He also clarified to the Jews that a man's fluid is white and thick, and a woman's fluid is yellow and thin, and that resemblance occurs to the one whose fluid precedes, and that the male or female gender of the child is determined by the fluid of one of them being dominant over the other, which is what modern medicine has proven. The Hadith of Ibn Umar mentions his supplication, peace and blessings be upon him, which includes a reference to the inheritance of physical characteristics, as he said: "And make the inheritor from us." This is what experimental science has proven.

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