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To what extent is the authenticity of the Hadith Qudsi that states: "O son of Adam! I placed you in your mother's womb, and covered your face with a veil so that you would not recoil from the womb... Yet, if you call upon Me, I shall answer you; if you ask of Me, I shall give to you; and if you repent to Me, I shall accept you"?

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This hadith is fabricated and a lie, and it is impermissible to attribute it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Scholars of hadith have not transmitted it in their books. Rather, it came with a weak chain of narration from Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi, who read something similar to this statement in the Torah or the scriptures of Abraham. The chain of narration contains a weak narrator named Musa ibn Ubaidah al-Rabdhi, and the imams of hadith have unanimously agreed on his weakness. The details mentioned in the narration are not established, and many of them are denounced and incorrect, such as the statement, "And I made your face towards your mother's back so that the smell of food would not bother you," and "I made for you a cushion on your right, the liver, and on your left, the spleen," and "I inspired the angel in the wombs to bring you out, so he brought you out on a feather from his wing." These pieces of information do not align with scientific facts or authentic hadiths.

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