I was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when a woman came carrying her son and said, "Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah to bless him for me, for I have already lost three children."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked her, "Has this been since you embraced Islam?"She replied, "Yes."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her, "A fortified shield."A man then said to me, "Listen, Raja, to what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is saying."
كنت عند رسول الله ﷺ إذ جاءت امرأة بابن لها فقالت: يا رسول الله! ادع الله لي فيه بالبركة؛ فإنه قد توفي لي ثلاثة. فقال لها رسول الله ﷺ: أمنذ أسلمت؟ قالت: نعم. قال لها رسول الله ﷺ: جنة حصينة. فقال لي رجل: اسمعي يا رجاء ما يقول رسول الله ﷺ.
Ahmad (20782) and Tabarani in Al-Kabir (24/280) both narrated it from Abdul-Razzaq, who said, Hisham informed us, from Ibn Sirin, from a woman called Raja, and she related the same. Except that Tabarani named the woman "Rahma." Its chain of transmission is sahih. Haythami said in Al-Majma (6/3), "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it in Al-Kabir, except that he named her differently, and its narrators are the narrators of the sahih." Ibn Hajar mentioned it in Al-Isabah (4/301-302) by this route, and said, "Its narrators are trustworthy," and said, "It came down to us with a higher chain in Al-Marifah by Ibn Manda, and Abu Musa mentioned her under the letter Ra, and under the letter Za, and without diacritical marking, whether the jim is unshaddaed or shaddaed." He said in Al-Tajil, "Raja, with the jim doubled, and it is also said that the first letter of her name is za, with a fatha, she settled in Basra, and she had companionship with the Prophet, and Muhammad bin Sirin narrated from her."Perhaps this woman is the same one mentioned in the hadith of Abu Hurairah in Sahih Muslim, as noted earlier. This hadith was not mentioned by Abdul-Razzaq in Al-Musannaf, rather he mentioned in it a different but similar story, from Abu Qilaba, that a woman came to the Prophet ﷺ with a sick son of hers. She said, "O Messenger of Allah, pray to Allah for him, for he is the last of three children I have buried." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A fortified shelter."Abdul-Razzaq (20137) narrated it from Maamar, from Ayub, from Abu Qilaba, and he related the same. Abu Qilaba is Abdullah bin Zayd Al-Jarmi, who was trustworthy and virtuous, but he used to transmit with omitted links frequently, and he belongs to the third generation, and he did not witness the incident.