We were in Ayesha's house when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came in and said, "There are no two Muslim parents who lose three children who had not yet reached the age of accountability but that those children are brought and made to stand at the gate of Paradise. They are told, 'Enter Paradise,' and they reply, 'Shall we enter when our parents have not entered?' Then they are told," and here the narrator said, I am not sure about the second time, "'Enter Paradise, you and your parents.'"He said, That is the meaning of the words of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, "So the intercession of the intercessors will not avail them" [Muddaththir 74:48].He explained, The intercession of the children benefited the parents.
كنا في بيت عائشة، فدخل رسول الله ﷺ، فقال: ما من مسلمين يموت لهما ثلاثة أطفال لم يبلغوا الحنث إلا جيء بهم حتى يوقفوا على باب الجنة، فيقال لهم: ادخلوا الجنة، فيقولون: أندخل ولم يدخل أبوانا؟ فيقال لهم: فلا أدري في الثانية: ادخلوا الجنة وأبواكم، قال: فذلك قول الله عز و جل: {فما تنفعهم شفعة الشفعين} [المدثر: ٤٨] قال: نفعت الآباء شفاعة أولادهم
It was narrated by Ishaq bin Rahawayh (2074) — and this is his wording — and by Ibn Saad in Tabaqat (8/446), Bukhari in Tarikh al-Kabir (1/452), and Tabarani in al-Kabir (24/224), all of them through various routes from Aban bin Sam'ah, who said, I heard Muhammad bin Sirin say, Habiba bint Abu Sufyan narrated to me, and she related it. Its chain is hasan because of Aban bin Sam'ah al-Ansari al-Basri. Ibn Main, Abu Dawud, and Nasai regarded him as reliable. Ahmad said, "Salih (sound)." Abu Hatim said, "Truthful." Ibn Adi said, "He was only criticized for confusion that occurred when he grew old, but he was not classed as daif, because what he narrates is generally sound."I say, this is among what he narrated while he was still sound, since it has firm, sahih foundations.Habiba bint Abu Sufyan used to serve Ayesha. Her father was not Abu Sufyan bin Harb, the father of Umm Habiba, Mother of the Believers, but rather another Abu Sufyan whose lineage is unknown, as Ibn Hajar stated in al-Isaba (13/274). The wording "thus, Habiba bint Abu Sufyan" appears in Tabarani's al-Kabir, while in the rest of the sources she is mentioned simply as "Habiba," without attribution to a father.