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mother supplicated: „Allah, make my son like him.‟ The infant
released his mother's breast, turned and looked at the man and
said: „Allah, do not let me be like him.‟ Then he turned to his
mother's breast and resumed the suckling. At this point the Prophet,
praise and peace be upon him, demonstrated the suckling of the
child by putting his forefinger into his mouth and sucking it.

Then he continued: Then some people passed by who were beating
a young woman. Those who were beating her said: 'You have
committed adultery and theft.' She said repeatedly: 'Sufficient for me
is Allah, an Excellent Guardian is He.' The mother supplicated: „O
Allah, do let my son be like her.‟ Thereupon he stopped his suckling,
looked at the young woman and said: „O Allah, let me be like her.‟
Then a dialog between the mother and her son took place. She said
to him: „When a handsome, well to do man passed by and I
supplicated: O Allah, make my son like that one, but you said: 'Allah,
do not let me be like him.' Then, when some people passed by
beating a young girl saying: 'You have committed adultery and theft,
I supplicated: 'O Allah, do not let my son be like her', but you said: