DarussalamṢaḥīḥAl-Albaniصحيح، دون قوله: "حر" والمحفوظ "عبد" ، ابن ماجة (٢٠٧٤ و ٢٠٧٦) // مختصر مسلم (٨٩٧) ، وصحيح الجامع الصغير وزيادته (٧٠٥٠) //Al-AlbaniSahih · qualified assessmentAl-Albani source references (3)
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2615. It was narrated from 'Aishah that she wanted to buy Barîrah and set her free, but they stipulated that her loyalty as a freed slave (Walâ) should be to them. She mentioned that to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ and he said: "Buy her and set her free, and loyalty is due to the one who frees the slave." She was given the choice when she was freed. Some meat was brought to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ and it was said: "This is something that is given in charity to Barîrah." He said: "It is charity for her and gift
for us.” And her husband was a free man. (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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1. Walâ signifies that right which the freer or the liberator of the slave has over the freed slave. For instance, he (the slave) is known as his (the master's) freed man or Mawlâ. If he (the slave) dies and if he has no descendant to inherit his property, then the inheritance goes to his master, etc.
2. “He was a free man”: There is clarification in another narration that there is the statement or utterance of Aswad and not of the ‘Aîshah. And Aswad is a follower (Tabi’i - one of the second generation of the early Muslims who did not meet the Prophet ﷺ, but who learn the Dîn from the Companions). In other narrations, there is an unequivocal statement of ‘Aîshah and Ibn ‘Abbâs that the husband of Barirah was a slave (Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhârî: Divorce (At-Talâq), Ḥadîth 5282; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: Manumission (Al-I’tiq), Ḥadîth 1504).
