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Treatment Of Slaves, And The Expiation Of One Who Slaps His Slave

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Darussalam · Volume 4

27. The Book Of Oaths

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الحديث: 1658 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 1279

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[4301] 31 - (1658) It was narrated that Mu'âwiyah bin Suwaid said: "I slapped a freed slave of ours and he ran away. Then I came just before Zuhr and prayed behind my father. He called him, and called for me, then he said: 'Do to him what he did to you,' but he let me go. Then he said: 'At the time of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, we Banū Muqarrin had only one servant. One of us slapped her and news of that reached the Prophet ﷺ. He said: 'Manumit her.' They said: 'They do not have any other servant.' He said: 'Then let them keep her, and when they no longer need her, they should let her go.'"

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31 - (1658) حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، ح وحَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ، وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ، قَالَ: لَطَمْتُ مَوْلًى لَنَا فَهَرَبْتُ، ثُمَّ جِئْتُ قُبَيْلَ الظُّهْرِ، فَصَلَّيْتُ خَلْفَ أَبِي، فَدَعَاهُ وَدَعَانِي، ثُمَّ قَالَ: امْتَثِلْ مِنْهُ، فَعَفَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: كُنَّا بَنِي مُقَرِّنٍ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْسَ لَنَا إِلَّا خَادِمٌ وَاحِدَةٌ، فَلَطَمَهَا أَحَدُنَا، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: «أَعْتِقُوهَا»، قَالُوا: لَيْسَ لَهُمْ خَادِمٌ غَيْرُهَا، قَالَ: «فَلْيَسْتَخْدِمُوهَا، فَإِذَا اسْتَغْنَوْا عَنْهَا، فَلْيُخَلُّوا سَبِيلَهَا»

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