The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "No Muslim loses three of his children to death and is then touched by the Fire, except for the brief moment required to fulfill the oath."In another narration, "No Muslim loses three of his children to death and then enters the Fire, except for the brief moment required to fulfill the oath."In yet another narration, "None of you women loses three of her children, bearing it patiently for the sake of Allah's reward, except that she will enter Paradise."
أن رسول الله ﷺ قال: لا يموت لأحد من المسلمين ثلاثة من الولد فتمسه النار إلا تحلة القسم. وفي رواية: لا يموت لمسلم ثلاثة من الولد فيلج النار إلا تحلة القسم. وفي رواية أخرى: لا يموت لإحداكن ثلاثة من الولد فتحتسبه إلا دخلت الجنة.
Malik narrated it in the Book of Funerals (38) from Ibn Shihab, from Saeed bin Musayab, from Abu Hurairah, and he related the hadith. Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Oaths and Vows (6656) from Ismail, and Muslim in the Book of Righteousness and Kinship (2632) from Yahya bin Yahya, both of them from Malik with this same chain.The second version was narrated by both Bukhari (1251) and Muslim through Sufyan, who said, I heard Zuhri, with his chain of transmission. Abu Abdullah (Bukhari) said, "There is none among you but will come to it" [Maryam 19:71].The third version is found in Muslim through another route from Abu Hurairah.As for his saying, "tahillat al-qasam" (the fulfillment of the oath), with the ta pronounced with a fatha and the lam doubled, it means that by which an oath is discharged, that is, the yamin (oath), and it is the verbal noun of "hallala al-yamin," meaning to fulfill it. What is meant by it is minimizing the matter of coming to the Fire, just as one says, "I did not strike him except tahliylan," meaning without going to excess in the striking.They said that what is meant by it is His saying, "There is none among you but will come to it" [Maryam 19:71].Khattabi said, "Its meaning is that he does not enter the Fire to be punished by it, but rather he enters it merely passing through, and that passing through is no more than the measure by which a man fulfills his oath. This is what the second version points to, 'except for the fulfillment of the oath.'"