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1153. Hajjāj bin Hajjāj Al-Aslami narrated that his father asked the Prophet ﷺ: "O Messenger of Allāh! What will remove the responsibility of the foster relationship from me?" So he said: "A Ghurrah[1]: a male slave or a female slave." (Hasan)
(Abū 'Eisā said:) This Hadīth is Hasan Sahīh.
As for his saying: "What will remove the responsibility of the
foster relationship from me?" It is said that by that, he only meant the responsibility and rights due from the suckling. So when you give the woman who suckled you a male or female slave, then you have fulfilled her right. And it has been related that Abū Aṭ-Ṭufail said: "I was sitting with the Prophet ﷺ when a woman entered" so he ﷺ spread out his Ridā' for her to sit on. When she left it was said: 'She was the one who suckled the Prophet ﷺ.'"
This is how Yahya bin Sa'eed and Hātim bin Ismā'il and others reported it (no. 1153): From Hishām bin 'Urwah, from his father, from Hajjāj bin Hajjāj, from his father, from the Prophet ﷺ.
Sufyān bin 'Uyainah reported it from Hishām bin 'Urwah, from his father, from Hajjāj bin Abī Hajjāj, from his father, from the Prophet ﷺ. But the narration of Ibn 'Uyainah is not preserved.
What is correct is what these people reported from Hishām bin 'Urwah, from his father. Hishām bin 'Urwah's Kunyah is Abū Al-Mundhir, and he saw Jābir bin 'Abdullāh, (Ibn 'Umar, Fātimah bint Al-Mundhir bin Az-Zubair bin Al-'Awwām – and she is Hishām bin 'Urwah's wife).
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Footnotes
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[1] Meaning the best type of slave. See Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi.
Commentary
This narration shows that giving a slave or slave girl as a gift to the suckling
mother by the suckling is an acknowledgement and a token repayment of her help and services which she rendered to the suckling. Halimah, the suckling mother of the Prophet ﷺ visited him on the occasion of the battle of Hunain.
