English translation
3659. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "No child can compensate his father unless he finds him a slave, and buys him and sets him free." (Sahih)
Hadith 3659
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Darussalam · Volume 5
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الحديث: 3659 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 1207
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Source no. 3659 · Volume 8 · Page 159
Sahih
صحيح، الإرواء (١٧٤٧)
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Arabic text
3659 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا يَجْزِي وَلَدٌ وَالِدَهُ، إِلَّا أَنْ يَجِدَهُ مَمْلُوكًا فَيَشْتَرِيَهُ فَيُعْتِقَهُ»
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a. One should spare no effort to serve and support his parents. b. Manumission of slaves is a great good deed. c. Children of a free man from his slave woman become free while their mother still remains a slave. Parents and their children all could be slaves at the same time, and thereafter the master emancipates a son, while his parents still remain slaves. In such a situation it is possible that a child may purchase his parents, and then they will become free for being in the ownership of their own child.