Early childhood and the provisions related to it in the Sunnah of the Prophet

Abstract

Early childhood is the first stage of life after birth, and the noble Prophetic Sunnah came with the teachings of adopting a fully-built human being, and among these teachings is caring for the child on the first days of his birth, and this care is the rulings that came with regard to the child, and what is meant by care is that anything God Almighty has prescribed for him. Among the many benefits that the servants have in this world and the hereafter, these rulings came to include types of etiquette and acts of worship that we worship God Almighty by doing and doing in the correct manner, and among those rulings are: naming the newborn, performing the ritual nostrils on him, praying for his blessing, the call to prayer, the aqeeqah, and shaving the throat, Charity, circumcision, breastfeeding, custody, and others.