# Hadith & Talmud

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This page began as a list of parallels between rabbinic literature and hadith texts, but has now slightly expanded to include parallels between hadith and a variety of other earlier sources as well, such as with the Bible (separated into New and Old Testaments), and then other literature more generally, although the bulk of parallels listed are still with rabbinic texts. If you find a hadith that has a parallel with a pre-Islamic text and it's not mentioned below, please send it to me so that I can add it!

Huge thanks to @IanCook321, @yosef\_akiva and @hadithworks who have done a lot of the legwork in identifying the parallels below. In terms of actual resources out there which compile such parallels (other than this one which is, to my knowledge, the best and most comprehensive out there so far), see Levi Jacober's PhD thesis from 1935, titled "The traditions of Bukhari and their aggadic parallels" ([link to full thesis](https://www.academia.edu/78766406/The_traditions_of_al_Bukh%C4%81r%C4%AB_and_their_aggadic_parallels)), as well as [this new, albeit briefer, blog post](https://bliis.org/research/the-israiliyat-problem) by Bilal Muhammad. In the future, I hope to help create some statistics and/or visuals to help convey some of the data below, for example, the proportion of parallels that go back to rabbinic sources, to biblical sources, to Christian literature, etc.

All entries are in the following format:

*Short description*

* Rabbinic text:
* Hadith:
* Credit/source:

## Parallels with rabbinic texts <a href="#wiki_parallels_with_rabbinic_texts" id="wiki_parallels_with_rabbinic_texts"></a>

### Sahih al-Bukhari <a href="#wiki_sahih_al.2dbukhari" id="wiki_sahih_al.2dbukhari"></a>

*The righteous (Muslims, Israel) are like a palm tree*

* Rabbinic text: [Genesis Rabbah 41:1](https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.41.1?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en) (cf. Psalm 92:12)
* Hadith: \* Hadith: [Sahih Bukhari 61](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:61)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 143-144

*Religious knowledge decreases in the End Times*

* Rabbinic text: [Sanhedrin 97a](https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.97a.1?lang=bi)
* Hadith: [Sahih Bukhari 80](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:80)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/IanCook321/status/1808892997267845237>

*An angel appointed over a pregnancy asks God about its destiny on a set of binary outcomes*

* Rabbinic text: [Babylonian Talmud Niddah 16b](https://www.sefaria.org/Niddah.16b.12?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 318](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:318)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*Defecate to the east or west to avoid defecating towards the direction of the holy site*

* Rabbinic text: [Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 61b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.61b.12?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 394](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:394)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*Pray for more rain, then pray for less rain*

* Rabbinic text: [Taanit 19a](https://www.sefaria.org/Taanit.19a.4?lang=bi\&namedEntity=israel\&namedEntityText=Eretz%20Yisrael\&with=Lexicon\&lang2=en),
* Hadith: [Sahih Bukhari 1013](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:1013), [Sahih Bukhari 1014](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:1014)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 77

*Moses and the Angel of Death*

* Rabbinic text: [Sifrei Devarim 305](https://www.sefaria.org/Sifrei_Devarim.305.5?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 1339](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:1339)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/IanCook321/status/1763244309497655806/photo/2>

*Satan appearing in the form of a beggar seeking bread/food\\*

* Rabbinic text: [Kiddushin 81a](https://www.sefaria.org/Kiddushin.81a.15?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: \* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 2311](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2311)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 112-114

*A parable with people in the upper part of the ship questioning those in the bottom part creating a hole in it and endangering all of them*

* Rabbinic text: [Leviticus Rabbah 4:6](https://www.sefaria.org/Vayikra_Rabbah.4.6?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 2686](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2686)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 148-149

*It is permissible to lie in order to maintain peacetime*

* Rabbinic text: [Yevamot 65b](https://www.sefaria.org/Yevamot.65b.8?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 2692](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2692)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jmpcq7/rabbinic_hadith_parallel_lying_in_order_to/>

*The 70 or 99 names of God*

* Rabbinic text: [Numbers Rabbah 14:12](https://www.sefaria.org/Bamidbar_Rabbah.14.12?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 2736](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2736)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*Fasting and hellfire*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 31b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.31b.24?lang=bi)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 2840](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2840)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/yosef_akiva/status/1770780036204790091>

*Mercy was created with the beginning of the world*

* Rabbinic text: [Avot de Rabbi Nathan 4](https://www.sefaria.org/Avot_DeRabbi_Natan.4.5?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3194](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3194)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 94

*God's mercy overcomes God's anger*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 7a](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.7a.3?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3194](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3194)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 94

*The sun asks permission from God to move and rests below God's Throne*

* Rabbinic text: [Leviticus Rabbah 31](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Divination_Magic_and_Healing/5rXvLzHHhjcC?hl=en\&gbpv=1\&pg=PA23\&printsec=frontcover), [Sanhedrin 91b](https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.91b.5?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3199](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3199)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 118
* Other parallels: the tradition of the sun prostrating/bowing to God is also found in the Syriac Alexander Legend, which says that when the sun sets, "it bows down before God, its Creator". Credit: [Sean Anthony](https://x.com/shahanSean/status/1418239682958270467).

*A tree in Paradise that is the length of a one/five hundred year journey*

* Rabbinic text: [Genesis Rabbah 15:6](https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.15.6?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3251](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3251)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*Earth's fire as a fraction of hell's fire*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 57b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.57b.13?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3265](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3265)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/yosef_akiva/status/1769268183314170009/photo/3>

*It is evil to inquire about how creation came about*

* Rabbinic text: [Chagigah 11b](https://www.sefaria.org/Chagigah.11b.7?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3267](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3267)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 108

*Three cleansing or pious acts are needed to undo the acts of evil spirits/Satan during the night*

* Rabbinic text: [Shabbat 109a](https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/181592.11?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3269](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3269)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 111-112

*Praying adjacent to sunrise and sunset, followed by attributing evil to the one that prays exactly at sunrise or sunset*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 29b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.29b.9?lang=bi\&namedEntity=rav-zera\&namedEntityText=Rabbi%20Zeira\&with=Lexicon\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3272, 3273](https://sunnah.com/bukhari/59/82)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jos4da/rabbinic_hadith_parallel_praying_adjacent_to/>

*Five animals that can be killed in any circumstances, including in sanctified situations, one of them being the rabid dog*

* Rabbinic text: [Shabbat 121b](https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.121b.4?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3314](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3314)
* Credit/source: Michael Cook, [Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition](https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Studies_in_the_Origins_of_Early_Islamic/mH9qEAAAQBAJ?hl=en\&gbpv=1\&dq=What,+if+any,+is+the+link+between+Muslim+and+Zoroastrian+attitudes+to+the+killing+of+noxious+animals%3F\&pg=PR129\&printsec=frontcover), pg. 263, fn. 389
* Additional notes: see [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jf2lv8/rabbinic_parallel_with_hadith_on_the_five_kinds/) for a helpful graphic displaying this parallel.

*An angel appointed over a pregnancy asks God about its destiny on a set of binary outcomes*

* Rabbinic text: [Niddah 16b](https://www.sefaria.org/Niddah.16b.12?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: \* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3333](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3333)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 123-124

*David walks halfway in the night, prays, and returns to sleep*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 3b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.3b?lang=bi)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhar 3420](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3420)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1ed423r/parallels_between_rabbinic_literature_and_hadith/>
* Additional context [here](https://x.com/yosef_akiva/status/1821184411674509454) (see [this link](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1821184411674509454.html) for users without Twitter)

*A man selling land, not gold, followed by giving it to a newly married couple*

* Rabbinic text: [Jerusalem Talmud Bava Metzia 2.5.7](https://www.sefaria.org/Jerusalem_Talmud_Bava_Metzia.2.5.7?ven=english%7CSefaria_Community_Translation\&lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhar 3472](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3472)
* Parallel hadith: [Sahih Muslim 1721](https://sunnah.com/muslim:1721), [Riyad as-Sahilin 1826](https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:1826)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jjgv2o/rabbinic_hadith_parallel_a_man_selling_land_not/>

*Keeping the faith while being executed with iron combs*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 61b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.61b.9?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3612](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3612)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/IanCook321/status/1755320409099010149>

*A global fire during the end of the world*

* Rabbinic text: [Zohar Shemot 13](https://www.sefaria.org/Zohar%2C_Shemot.13.98?ven=english%7CThe_Zohar%3B_London,_Soncino_Press\&lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3938](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3938)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels

*Your whole body rots except for a lower-rear bone from which you will be resurrected*

* Rabbinic text: [Genesis Rabbah 28:3](https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.28.3?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 4814](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4814)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*Demons are stopped by a barrier of fire/flames when trying to eavesdrop on heaven*

* Rabbinic text: [Pirkei De Rabbi Eliezer](https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer.7.6?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 4921](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4921)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 114-118

*The taste of fruits*

* Rabbinic text: [Leviticus Rabbah 30](https://www.sefaria.org/Vayikra_Rabbah.30.12?ven=Sefaria_Community_Translation\&lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 5020](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5020), [Sahih al-Bukhari 5059](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5059)
* Credit/source: (1) <https://twitter.com/hadithworks/status/1707761263768461429> (2) Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 146-147
* [Helpful graphic for the parallel](https://x.com/bukhari3849/status/1902470703246426608/photo/1)

*Do not walk outside during the night because that is when there are bounds of demons out*

* Rabbinic text: [Pesachim 112b](https://www.sefaria.org/Pesachim.112b.15?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 5623](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5623)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 110

*Wipe with your left hand, not the right, after defecation*

* Rabbinic text: [Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 62a](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.62a.1?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=enn)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 5630](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5630)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*If someone is good, God gives them afflictions out of love*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 5a](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5a.11?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 5645](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5645)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 102-103

*Black cumin as a generalist herbal medicine*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 40a](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.40a.9?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en); [Tractate Kallah 3](https://www.sefaria.org/Tractate_Kallah.3.2?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 5687](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5687)
* Credit/source: Multiple commenters on [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1lzwi85/is_black_cumin_considered_highly_beneficial_for/) and one in [this tweet](https://x.com/pasttruths/status/1945080780289360045).
* Note: Black cumin can also be found in many ancient Greek texts. According to one user, "black cumin is one of the famous ancient herbs used in oriental antiquity for its healing and cooking properties" (see full comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1m0cd1r/comment/n38qcee/)). The hadith has likely adopted this tradition from Near Eastern folk medicine more generally.

*Put on your right shoe first, take off your left shoe first*

* Rabbinic text: [Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 61a](https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.61a.10?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 5856](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5856)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*Adam's height*

* Rabbinic text: [Bava Batra 75a](https://www.sefaria.org/Bava_Batra.75a.12?lang=bi\&namedEntity=rabbi-meir\&namedEntityText=Rabbi%20Meir\&with=Lexicon\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6227](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6227)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/IanCook321/status/1769135020201910542>
* Other parallels to this in: the Zoroastrian [Gayōmard (Article 2)](https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gayomard/), Apocalypse of Abraham 23:4-5, Questions of Bartholomew 1:21, Book of Bartholomew 14:1, Leviticus Rabbah 14:1; 18:2.

*The most righteous generations were the earliest ones*

* Rabbinic text: [Jerusalem Talmud Demai 1.3](https://www.sefaria.org/Jerusalem_Talmud_Demai.1.3.5?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6429](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6429)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels

*What Helps You When Dead? Not Wealth, Not Kin—Just Your Deeds*

* Rabbinic text: [Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 34:8](https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer.34.8?ven=english%7CPirke_de_Rabbi_Eliezer,_trans._Rabbi_Gerald_Friedlander,_London,_1916\&lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6514](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6514)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 266-267.

*Those in Paradise will eat from Behemoth and Leviathan*

* Rabbinic text: [Tanḥuma-Yelammedenu, Shmini 7](https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Shmini.7.1?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6520](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6520)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/>

*A heavenly tree whose size equals a multi-hundred year journey*

* Rabbinic text: [Bereshit Rabbah 15:6](https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.15.6?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6553](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6553), [Sahih Muslim 2826a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2826a)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/yosef_akiva/status/1882091484226429394>

*Passageway into Paradise allowed, or all your sins are forgiven, if your young chilren die*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 5b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5b.1?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6656](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6656)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pg. 126

*A good dead is only counted if it is also backed up by the intent of the doer*

* Rabbinic text: Eruvin 95B.21 <https://www.sefaria.org/Eruvin.95b.21?lang=bi&with=About&lang2=en>
* Hadith: Sahih al-Bukhari 6689 <https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6689>
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, “The Traditions of Al-Bukhārī and their Aggadic Parallels”, page 272-273

*On the explanation for why the childs color differs from the parents*

* Rabbinic text: [Genesis Rabbah 73:10](https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.73.10?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6847](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5847)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jhv65c/rabbinic_parallels_with_hadith_a_women_giving/>

*A dream as a small fraction of a prophecy*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 57b:13](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.57b.13?lang=bi)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 6983](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6983)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/IanCook321/status/1725631777505521793>

*The five secrets (keys) of information unseen by anyone but God*

* Rabbinic text: [Taanith 2a](https://www.sefaria.org/Taanit.2a.12?lang=en\&with=SidebarSearch\&lang2=en), [Pesachim 54b](https://www.sefaria.org/Pesachim.54b.2?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en), [Tanḥuma (Buber), Genesis 7:16](https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma_Buber%2C_Vayetzei.16.1?ven=Midrash_Tanhuma,_S._Buber_Recension%3B_trans._by_John_T._Townsend,_1989.\&lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en) (see link for more rabbinic texts with this reference)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 7379](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:7379)
* Credit/source: (1) <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e1svgb/a_few_hadith_parallels_with_the_bible_apocrypha/> (2) Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 92-94

*A man has himself burned and his ashes spread across the seas to avoid judgement*

* Rabbinic text: [Gittin 56B.17](https://www.sefaria.org/Gittin.56b.17?ven=english%7CWilliam_Davidson_Edition_-_English\&lang=en\&with%0A=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 7506](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:7506)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 280-281

*When a man commits a sin a first time and repents, forgive him; for the second time, forgive him; for the third time, forgive him*

* Rabbinic text: [Yoma 86b](https://www.sefaria.org/Yoma.86b.10?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 7507](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:7507)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 95-96

### Sahih Muslim <a href="#wiki_sahih_muslim" id="wiki_sahih_muslim"></a>

*If someone intends to do a good deed but cannot complete it, they are still rewarded for it*

* Rabbinic text: [Kiddushin 40A.12](https://www.sefaria.org/Kiddushin.40a.12?ven=english%7CWilliam_Davidson_Edition_-_English\&lang=en&%0Awith=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 131a](https://sunnah.com/muslim/1/245)
* Credit/source: Ian Cook

*Childs sex determined by which parent emits their seed first*

* Rabbinic text: [Niddah 31a](https://www.sefaria.org/Niddah.31a.23?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en), [Berakhot 60a](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.60a.14?ven=english%7CWilliam_Davidson_Edition_-_English\&lang=bi), [Midrash Tanhuma Buber, Tazria 4:1](https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma_Buber%2C_Tazria.4.1?ven=english%7CMidrash_Tanhuma,_S._Buber_Recension%3B_trans._by_John_T._Townsend,_1989.\&lang=bi)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 315a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:315a)
* Credit/source: NA

*Earth's fire as a fraction of hell's fire*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 57b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.57b.13?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2843a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2843a)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/yosef_akiva/status/1769268183314170009/photo/3>

*Child is only created from part of the semen*

* Rabbinic text: [Niddah 31a](https://www.sefaria.org/Niddah.31a.18?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 1438k](https://sunnah.com/muslim:1438k)
* Credit/source: NA

*Eat seven dates to avoid an illness*

* Rabbinic text: [Shabbat 109b](https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.109b.5?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2047b](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2047b)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jwsvkk/rabbinic_hadith_parallel_the_curativeprotective/>

*The Ending of a Man’s Life Erases—Or Redeems—His Earlier Years*

* Rabbinic text: [Kiddushin 40B.3](https://www.sefaria.org/Kiddushin.40b.3?ven=english%7CWilliam_Davidson_Edition_-_English\&lang=en&%0Awith=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2643a](https://sunnah.com/muslim/46/1)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 269-270

*Sperm takes shape into child with supernatural assistance after 40 days in the womb*

* Rabbinic text: [Yevamot 69b](https://www.sefaria.org/Yevamot.69b.10?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2645c](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2645c)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/yosef_akiva/status/1783876584690127307>

*Substituting a disbeliever into hell for a believer to go into heaven*

* Rabbinic text: [Exodus Rabbah 11:2](https://www.sefaria.org/Shemot_Rabbah.11.2?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2767b](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2767b)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/CandyCrusher44/status/1812288795062018219>

*Resurrecting bodies with rain dew*

* Rabbinic text: [Chagigah 12b](https://www.sefaria.org/Chagigah.12b.12?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en) \* [Shabbat 88b](https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.88b.6?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2940a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2940a)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/yosef_akiva/status/1771216827386937605>

*The rising of the sun from the west*

* Rabbinic text: [Avot DeRabbi Natan 32:1](https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/386568.14?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=bi)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2947a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2947a)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/HadithCritic/status/1897973417556508953>

*A man’s limbs will testify about him on Judgement Day*

* Rabbinic text: [Taanit 11a.10](https://www.sefaria.org/Taanit.11a.10?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2969](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2969)
* Credit/source: Ian Cook

### Jami at-Tirmidhi <a href="#wiki_jami_at.2dtirmidhi" id="wiki_jami_at.2dtirmidhi"></a>

*500 years of travel between each of the heavens*

* Rabbinic text: [Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot 9:1](https://www.sefaria.org/Jerusalem_Talmud_Berakhot.9.1.13?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Jami at-Tirmidhi 3298](https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:3298)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/chonkshonk1/status/1770121842461708304>

*Adam learns the names*

* Discussed in Saqib Hussain, "Adam and the names," BSOAS (2024), pp. 14ff.

*God creates the scripture 2,000 years before creation*

* Rabbinic text: [Bereshit Rabbah 8](https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.8.2?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Jami at-Tirmidhi 2882](https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:2882)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/yosef_akiva/status/1863136206202003744>

### Sunan Ibn Majah <a href="#wiki_sunan_ibn_majah" id="wiki_sunan_ibn_majah"></a>

*Fasting on Mondays and Thursdays*

* Rabbinic text: [Megillat Ta'anit Adar 20](https://www.sefaria.org/Megillat_Ta'anit%2C_Adar.20), [Midrash Tanchuma Buber Vayera 16:1](https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma_Buber%2C_Vayera.16.1)
* Hadith: [Sunan Ibn Majah 1739](https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1739), [Sunan Abi Dawud 2436](https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2436)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1gh1eon/parallels_between_rabbinic_literature_and_the/>

*Loans are greater than charity*

* Rabbinic text: [Shabbat 63a](https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.63a.26?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan Ibn Majah 2431](https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:2431)
* Credit/source: @yosef\_akiva

*It is permitted to eat fish and locusts*

* Rabbinic text: [Chullin 104a](https://www.sefaria.org/Chullin.104a.1?ven=english%7CSefaria_Community_Translation\&lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan Ibn Majah 3218](https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:3218)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1o88y9p/parallels_of_allowingpermitting_dead_meat_or/>

### Sunan an-Nasa'i <a href="#wiki_sunan_an.2dnasa.27i" id="wiki_sunan_an.2dnasa.27i"></a>

*Dogs preventing good from entering a home*

* Rabbinic text: [Shabbat 63a](https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.63a.28?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan an-Nasai 261](https://sunnah.com/nasai:261)
* Credit/source: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1bkop58/resemblance_between_talmud_and_hadith_on_dogs_not/>

*When a man dies, angels receive him positively or negatively according to his life's works*

* Rabbinic text: [Ketubot 104A.8](https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.104a.8?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan an-Nasa'i 1833](https://sunnah.com/nasai:1833)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, “The Traditions of Al-Bukhārī and their Aggadic Parallels”

### Sunan Abu Dawud <a href="#wiki_sunan_abu_dawud" id="wiki_sunan_abu_dawud"></a>

*The Messianic era will last for 40 years*

* Rabbinic text: [Sanhedrin 99a](https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.99a.2?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan Abu Dawud 4324](https://sunnah.com/abudawud:4324)
* Credit/source: Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels

*A young faithful is pointed up to know where God resides*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 48a](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.48a.3?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan Abu Dawud 5092](https://sunnah.com/abudawud:5092)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/IanCook321/status/1846725545351884945>

*When you see the moon, repeat this formula 3 times!*

* Rabbinic text: [Tractate Soferom 20](https://www.sefaria.org/Tractate_Soferim.20.2?lang=en\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Sunan Abu Dawud 3282](https://sunnah.com/abudawud:3282)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/hadithworks/status/1871312455885894000>

### Riyad as-Salihin <a href="#wiki_riyad_as.2dsalihin" id="wiki_riyad_as.2dsalihin"></a>

*No eating while standing, no drinking while standing*

* Rabbinic text: [Gittin 70a](https://www.sefaria.org/Gittin.70a.20?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Riyad as-Salihin 770](https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:770)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/yosef_akiva/status/1853846008867782808>

### Al Adab al Mufrad <a href="#wiki_al_adab_al_mufrad" id="wiki_al_adab_al_mufrad"></a>

*Plant the sapling if you can before the end*

* Rabbinic text: [Avot de Rabbi Natan 31](https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/115461.1?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Al Adab al Mufrad](https://sunnah.com/adab/27/4)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/IanCook321/status/1695617793545142359>

### Mishkat al-Masabih <a href="#wiki_mishkat_al.2dmasabih" id="wiki_mishkat_al.2dmasabih"></a>

*Don't yawn while praying*

* Rabbinic text: [Berakhot 24b](https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.24b?lang=bi)
* Hadith: [Mishkat 993](https://sunnah.com/mishkat:993)
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/IanCook321/status/1757582463793045789>

*The unbeliever as a cedar tree suddenly uprooted*

* Rabbinic text: [Taanit 20a](https://www.sefaria.org/Taanit.20a.15?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: [Mishkat 1541](https://sunnah.com/mishkat:1541)
* Credit/source: (1) <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jinpsw/rabbinic_hadith_parallel_the_unbeliever_as_a/> (2) Levi Jacober, The traditions of al-Bukhārī and their aggadic parallels, pp. 144-146

### Ibn Hanbal <a href="#wiki_ibn_hanbal" id="wiki_ibn_hanbal"></a>

*Who is rich? Who is wise?*

* Rabbinic text: [Pirkei Avot 4](https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.4?lang=bi)
* Hadith: Ibn Hanbal, al-Zuhd
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/hadithworks/status/1734193253681889682>

### Al-Tabari <a href="#wiki_al.2dtabari" id="wiki_al.2dtabari"></a>

*Korah's wealth*

* Rabbinic text: [Pesachim 119a](https://www.sefaria.org/Pesachim.119a.12?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en)
* Hadith: Al-Tabari
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/hadithworks/status/1729464036218036564>

*Slandering Moses for adultery*

* Rabbinic text: [Sanhedrin 110a](https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.110a.5?lang=bi)
* Hadith: History of Al Tabari Volume III, State University of New York Press, narration 524
* Credit/source: <https://twitter.com/yosef_akiva/status/1773754629232206201>

## Sahifah of Hammam ibn Munabbih <a href="#wiki_sahifah_of_hammam_ibn_munabbih" id="wiki_sahifah_of_hammam_ibn_munabbih"></a>

* See [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1k2bv5r/sahifah_hammam_ibn_munabbih_parallels/) for a detailed listing of rabbinic and biblical parallels with the hadith in the Sahifah of Hammam ibn Munabbih

### Miscellaneous <a href="#wiki_miscellaneous" id="wiki_miscellaneous"></a>

* Several angels appearing across many hadith in a range of sources seem to be derived from Jewish sources. This is discussed in Budge, Angels in Islam, pp. 47-48. A post of the discussion can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jl3pn0/implementation_of_jewish_angelology_in_islamic).
* A male-bird tricks a lady-bird into sleeping with him by promising something that he can't actually give her. This finds parallel in a hadith attributed to Solomon (not Muhammad). The hadith sources, rabbinic text, and attribution of the find is all here: <https://sites.google.com/site/elonharvey/publications-more/solomon-s-birds-extra/birds-traditions>
* *The three types of jinn*. Rabbinic text: [Hagigah 16a](https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/135612.36?lang=bi\&with=all\&lang2=en). Quotation: "Sages taught: Six statements were said with regard to demons: In three ways they are like ministering angels, and in three ways they are like humans. The baraita specifies: In three ways they are like ministering angels: They have wings like ministering angels; and they fly from one end of the world to the other like ministering angels; and they know what will be in the future like ministering angels." <https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/135612.36?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en> . Hadith: "Abu Tha'labah al-Khushani said, the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, "The Jinn are of three types, a type that has wings, and they fly through the air, a type that looks like snakes and dogs and a type that stops for a rest then resumes its journey." (reported by al-Tahawi in Mushkil al-Athar, 4/95, and by al-Tabarani in al-Kabir, 22/214. Shaykh al-Albani said in al-Mishkat (2/1206, no. 4148): al-Tahawi and Abul-Shaykh reported it with a Sahih Isnad)". Quoted from <https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2340/types-of-jinn>
* [Various hadith](https://hadeethenc.com/en/browse/hadith/3413?utm_source=chatgpt.com) on the Throne and Footstool of God. This division is first found in rabbinic tradition, e.g. see [bChagigah 14a:6-7](https://www.sefaria.org/Chagigah.14a.6?lang=bi).
* Quoting Bilal Muhammad: "In Ṭabarānī’s Muʿjam al-Kabīr, Shaddād b. Aws narrates that the Prophet said, “Poverty is more becoming for the believer than attractive bridle straps are for a horse’s cheeks.”\[8] The same saying is attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in Kulayni’s al-Kāfi.\[9] The Talmud quotes a similar expression from a “folk saying that people say”: “Poverty is good for the Jewish people like a red bridle for a white horse.”\[10]" The Talmudic passage Bilal Muhammad is citing is [Chagigah 9b](https://www.sefaria.org/Chagigah.9b.12).

## Parallels with the Bible <a href="#wiki_parallels_with_the_bible" id="wiki_parallels_with_the_bible"></a>

### With the New Testament... <a href="#wiki_with_the_new_testament" id="wiki_with_the_new_testament"></a>

Matthew 7:3, Luke 6:41 / [Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 592](https://sunnah.com/adab:592), [Kanz al-Ummal, hadith 44141](http://shiaonlinelibrary.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8/2280_%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%AC-%D9%A1%D9%A6/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_122), [Sahih Ibn Hibban 4597](https://shamela.ws/book/537/4994#p1) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1m8wssp/hadith_parallel_matthew_73/>)

Matthew 10:37 / [Sahih al-Bukhari 14](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:14), [Sahih a-Bukhari 15](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:15)

Matthew 13:3-9 / [Sahih al-Bukhari 79](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:79) (credit: Jacober, pp. 147-148)

Matthew 18:10-14 / [Jami at-Tirmidhi 3538](https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:3538)

Matthew 20:1-16 / [Sahih al-Bukhari 3459](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3459) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jsp0f4/gospel_of_matthew_and_hadith_parallel/> )

Matthew 20:16 / [Sahih Muslim 855a](https://sunnah.com/muslim/7/28-32) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jqljo3/hadith_parallel_so_the_last_shall_be_first/>)

Matthew 23:10 / [Sahih Muslim 2249a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2249a) (credit: <https://x.com/GabrielSaidR/status/1918364161135853962>)

Matthew 25:31-46 / [Al Adab Al-Mufrad 517](https://sunnah.com/adab:517)

Luke 23:34 / [Sahih a-Bukhari 6929](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6929)

John 20:29 / [Ahmad 12578](https://hadithunlocked.com/ahmad:12578)

Acts 5:38-39 / [Sahih Muslim 2930a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2930a) ([credit](https://x.com/chonkshonk1/status/1977781575291990165))

1 Cor. 2:9 / Sahih al-Bukhari 7498. For more detail, see Clivas & Schulthess, "On the Source and Rewriting of 1 Corinthians 2.9 in Christian, Jewish and Islamic Traditions (1 Clem 34.8; GosJud 47.10–13; a ḥadīth qudsī)," pp. 194-195. [Helpful graphic.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jkgyz7/usage_of_1_corinthians_29_in_hadith/)

1 Corinthians 12:12, 25-26 / [Sahih Bukhari 6011](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6011), [Sahih Muslim 2586a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2586a) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1m8cikm/hadith_parallel_1_corinthians_12/> and <https://x.com/GabrielSaidR/status/1951254406432727211>)

Revelation 13:16 / [Musnad Ahmad 22308](https://hadithunlocked.com/ahmad:22308)

Revelation 16:12 (also Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 19:5) / [Riyad as-Salihin 1822](https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:1822) — The Euphrates will dry up

### With the Old Testament... <a href="#wiki_with_the_old_testament" id="wiki_with_the_old_testament"></a>

Gen 1:26 / [Sahih Muslim 2612e](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2612e) (God created Adam in his own image)

Deuteronomy 20:1-9 + Joshua 7 + Joshua 10 / Sahih Bukhari 3124 (see visual [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1o4us2o/hadith_parallel_joshuas_conquest/))

1 Samuel 16:7 / Sahih Muslim 2564 (credit: <https://bliis.org/research/the-israiliyat-problem> )

1 Kings 3:16-28 / Sahih Bukhari 3427

Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 19:5 (also revelation 16:12) / [Riyad as-Salihin 1822](https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:1822) — The Euphrates will dry up]

Isaiah 11:6-9 / [this hadith](http://shiaonlinelibrary.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8/1897_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%AC-%D9%A1%D9%A1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_400#top) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jn80du/hadith_parallel_isaiah_11s_eschatological_vision/>)

Isaiah 52 / [Sahih al-Bukhari 2125](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2125) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jxj4lc/hadith_parallel_isaiah_42/> )

Ezekiel 39:9 / [Sunan ibn Majah 4076](https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4076) (credit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1jpmbbc/hadith_parallel_ezekiel_39/>)

Ecclesiastes 7:28 / [Sahih al-Bukhari 6498](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6498) (credit: Jacober, pp. 132-133)

## Parallels with other sources <a href="#wiki_parallels_with_other_sources" id="wiki_parallels_with_other_sources"></a>

*The gods love for uneven/odd numbers*

* Text: [Virgil's Eclogue VIII](https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilEclogues.php)
* Hadith: [Sahih Muslim 2677a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:2677a)
* Credit/source: <https://x.com/hadithworks/status/1853855345002553761>

*The salamander and hellfire*

* Text: [Augustine's City of God, Book 21, Chapter 4](https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120121.htm)
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 3359](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3359)
* Credit/source: Much more information can be found about this salamander trope [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_salamanders) and [here](https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Salamander)

*The blindness in the right eye of Dajjal*

* Texts: Zechariah 11:15-17 describes a worthless shepherd with a damaged right eye and a severed arm. Some later Christian theologians interpreted this figure as the Antichrist (Jerome, Commentary on the Prophet Zechariah 3.11.15; Didymus the Blind, On Zechariah 11). Also see the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel. Pseudo-John seems to contain much more detailed parallels with this tradition, though: see [here](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1773940106270761280.html).
* Hadith: [Mentioned in numerous hadith](https://sunnah.com/search?q=dajjal+blind)

*Angelic intercession for believers*

* Texts: Multiple second Temple Jewish early Christian writings: 1 Enoch 15:2; 39:5; 47:1-2; 104:1; 4Q400 1:15-20; T. Levi 3:5; T. Dan 6:2; 3 Baruch 11:4, 9; 12; 15; Apoc. Moses 33-38.
* Hadith: [Sahih al-Bukhari 659](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:659), [Sahih al-Bukhari 3229](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3229)

*Various eschatological doctrines*

* See Ali Akbar, "The Zoroastrian Provenance of Some Islamic Eschatological Doctrines," Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses (2020), pp. 86-108.

*The Euphrates drying up uncovering a mountain of gold*

* This idea is found 8th-century Jewish and Christian texts: The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai (see [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1e3n7wz/hadith_prophecy_parallel_the_mountain_of_gold/)) and, in related fashion, the a Syriac work known as the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles (though it is associated with the Tigris in the latter source). See <https://bliis.org/research/the-israiliyat-problem>
* Hadith: [Riyad as-Salihin 1822](https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:1822)

*Only women, not men, can wear silk and gold*

* Text: *The Twelve Caesars* by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. "Caligula ignored Roman fashion and tradition in clothing ... sometimes dressing in the silken robes only permitted to women ... Then again, he would often appear with a golden beard, grasping a lightning-bolt, a trident, or a caduceus, as an emblem of the god, or robed as Venus."
* Hadith: [Sunan an-Nasa'i 5265](https://sunnah.com/nasai:5265)
* Additional notes: apparently the wearing of silk for men was outright banned during the reign of the emperor Tiberius <https://www.britannica.com/topic/dress-clothing/Government-regulation-of-dress?utm_source=chatgpt.com>

*Whoever tells a lie about me deliberately, let him take his place in Hell*

* The title of this one [is the hadith](https://sunnah.com/ahmad:584). This passage warns against fabricating hadith. It resembles curse formula found at the end of texts or inscriptions across the ancient Near East warning the audience not to modify or efface the composition. For example, near the end of the Book of Revelation, we read: "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll." Two Ethiopian inscriptions with these curse formula, listed in George Hatke, “May He and His Kin Be Eradicated and Uprooted: Curse Formulae in Aksumite Royal Inscription,” *Folia Orientalia* (2023), pg. 56, read "May he who effaces this inscription be blinded" and "O Lāt, let there be blindness and a scab and starvation for he who would efface the inscription". It occurs in several South Arabian inscriptions, e.g. "And may ʿAmm shame the one who will violate this memorial" (see Giovanni Mazzini, "Ancient South arabian inscription BynM 5: A new interpretationand semitic parallels," Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (2020)). It occurs in some Safaitic inscriptions: "may he who would efface (this writing) out of jealousy be thrown out (of the grave) by a loved one" (Ahmad Al-Jallad, "Ancient Allah: An Epigraphic Reconstruction," Journal of Semitic Studies (2025), pg. 22).

*The human body has 360 joints*

* [Sahih Muslim 1007a](https://sunnah.com/muslim:1007a)
* As documented [here](https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/68736/how-old-is-the-idea-that-humans-have-360-joints), this idea has precednet in pre-Islamic, ancient Chinese and Indian medical texts.

*People's age in paradise*

* Bilal Muhammad writes: "In Sunan al-Tirmidhī, there is a ḥadīth on the authority of Muʿādh b. Jabal that the Prophet said that the people of Paradise would be “thirty years of age or thirty-three years.” \[[Jami at-Tirmidhi 2545](https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:2545)] Sean Anthony suggests that this may come from fourth century Syriac Christian exegetical sources, which say that Adam “was created at the age of thirty”, Jesus “came to baptism at the age of thirty years”, and “that believers would be resurrected at an age ‘attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ,’ i.e., \~30-33.” \[<https://x.com/shahanSean/status/1797765325775360012]>"
* Credit: <https://bliis.org/research/the-israiliyat-problem>

*Only Jesus and Mary were untouched by Satan at their birth*

* "This protection of Mary and her children from Satan was also a topic of interest for the Muslim Hadith tradition. Thus, in one hadith \[[Sahih al-Bukhari 4548](https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4548)] it is said that only Jesus and Mary were left untouched by Satan at their respective births. In saying this, the hadith tradition awakened echoes of the Catholic doctrine of original sin, which also maintains that it is exclusively Jesus and Mary who were born without original sin and who are therefore protected from Satan" (Muna Tatari and Klaus von Stosch, Mary in the Qur’an: Friend of God, Virgin, Mother, University of Chicago Press 2021, pg. 169)

## Shia hadith? <a href="#wiki_shia_hadith.3f" id="wiki_shia_hadith.3f"></a>

The above only covers Sunni hadith. [One post has been made](https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQuran/comments/1lwa0dc/shia_hadith_shares_content_with_medieval_jewish/) pointing out a parallel with Shia hadith. I will more properly categorize these if a greater number are identified in the future. A second Shia parallel is listed above, in the New Testament section, for Matthew 7:3, Luke 6:41. Bilal Muhammad has also observed a few parallels with Shia hadith in [this post](https://bliis.org/research/the-israiliyat-problem), under the sections "The rarity of a good woman" and "Seven Seals".

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