A second reported opinion assigns punishment to such children. Its proponents cite a narration containing the words الوائدة والموؤودة في النار
“The woman who buried alive and the one buried alive are in the Fire.”
Several responses are recorded. One interprets the relevant term in a restricted sense, possibly referring to the mother in the particular case; another reads the narration as dealing with a specific incident rather than all children. A disputed narration should not be universalized before its intended referents and circumstances have been examined.
Methodological lesson: to infer a general doctrine from a report, one considers its scope, context, related texts, and possible specification. Here both the opinion and the objections to its reasoning must remain visible.